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Prisoner litigation unit is a nightmare. 90% of the attorneys have been there a year or less because everyone flees. Constant pleas for help to management go unheard. They simply don’t care. Just keep piling on more cases until another one bites the dust. Every time an attorney leaves, the leftovers get that persons work, of course. If you want judges and opposing counsel to constantly be looking down on you because your employer doesn’t care at all about you as an individual and the damage they’re doing to your career by constantly keeping you overworked and under-resourced, this is a great place to get experience as you contemplate how to stall the next mental breakdown for another day or two so that you can answer a motion for sanctions because the person before you was too busy searching for a new job to work up their cases. 

It’s a political office but also the chief legal office of the state. Unfortunately, the former takes precedence over the latter, which makes doing legal work unsatisfactory as it’s tampered not by what’s ethically and morally right but rather by what’s politically advantageous.

Great place to gain court room experience. If leadership cared more about the employees and their families, attorneys would stay longer. Most enjoyable part was the colleagues. I worked with some of the best litigators who also happened to be kind hearted people.

Management and co-workers are wonderful. Ensuring the enforcement of environmental regulations for Illinois citizens is very fulfilling work.

If you would like to learn new areas of the law.  This place will give you the opportunity.  Even if you have no experience in the area you want to practice, you will get the opportunity to do so.

It's an adequate government job that fulfills the constitutional mandates that are associated with this office.  There really is not much more that can be said about it from my experience.

Excellent working environment. Work with lots of people at difference levels: staff, attorneys, advocates. Really get a chance to help people with all sorts of issues.

The lawyers are friendly and enjoy mentoring.  The overall culture is also very welcoming.  I never felt intimidated and always had a great time interning.

Learned to work in the career field.  Experienced a lot of different scenario.  Able to prioritize the work on a daily basis.

Great work/life balance. Learn about prosecution in state and federal courts. Management and co-workers are easy to get along with.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Legal secretary 22 salaries reported	$55,155 per year
Associate attorney 59 salaries reported	$95,798 per year
Senior paralegal 14 salaries reported	$63,660 per year
Office assistant 13 salaries reported	$51,574 per year
Administrative clerk 10 salaries reported	$57,564 per year

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