Thank you so much for your help, everyone!

Hi there! What a lovely and thorough response, so thanks. :)

I am interested in anything--litigation, enforcement, compliance, etc.--that has to do with white collar and financial crimes. I'm still in undergrad right now and will take some time off to study for the LSAT. Unfortunately I don't have the luxury of being able to do an unpaid internship before starting law school though.

What are some other positions which could lead to working for the federal government but which are not private sector firms? Low pay is not an issue--I want to gain experience and love my job.

Thanks! That's the goal. :)

What about being an ADA? Does it logically follow that a state prosecutor can become a federal prosecutor after a good amount of experience?

Hi there, thanks! I am in NYC and want to stay here (born and raised) or at most work in D.C. I could do Philadelphia or Chicago too. I am not against clerking either!

I double majored in jurisprudence/political science.

Essentially, I want to know how I can end up working white collar and financial crimes without doing the BigLaw thing first. If I get a decent enough LSAT score, my GPA is high enough that BigLaw is not out of the question for me, but professionally it's just not my goal. I'd even be happy with a simple municipal NYC law department job if I knew after 5+ years I could work BigFed. I'm not motivated by a large salary of a big firm; I really don't want to be in the private sector.

Thanks for your help so far :)