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T6 student who missed the big law train. Always been interested in politics but never worked on the hill (significant adjacent work though). What long-term options would be open if I started a fellowship on the hill post-grad and ended up on a committee as counsel? Would I be able to transition into some sort of regulatory role, eg agency, eventually?

Hill jobs are like a lot of work and networking to get into. Wouldn't really count on this to be your fallback. I'd apply to biglaw jobs and simultaneously try to network your way in. If you solely focus on the Hill stuff you may end up unemployed.

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Thu Feb 02, 2023 9:12 pm

Hill jobs are like a lot of work and networking to get into. Wouldn't really count on this to be your fallback. I'd apply to biglaw jobs and simultaneously try to network your way in. If you solely focus on the Hill stuff you may end up unemployed.

This does not respond to the question. And there are fellowship positions to facilitate networking into full time jobs

I used to work on the Hill. I think exit strategies depend highly on what sort of thing you’re doing. Doing FDA law as committee counsel? Almost certainly can exit to big law as a regulatory lawyer. But some things would give virtually no chance of that.