You have paid down your substantial educational debt, convinced your family that despite the hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost income that this will pay huge experiential dividends, and you have begun to allow yourself to imagine a public service-centric legal position divorced from the billable hour.
Having distinguished yourself during the interview process, rediscovered addresses you had long since forgotten as part of your Standard Form 86 (SF-86) background process, you’re now trading your pocket square or designer bag for a lapel pin and government-issued laptop case. How do you successfully transition into a new role and a new structural model, not to mention a vast bureaucracy that dictates everything from when you can travel to how many boxes of toner you are allotted?
