District Attorney's Office of Philadelphia

Come in with a very clear understanding of what division you’re interested in working in. For example, I knew I wanted to be in the homicide unit and expressed this desire during my interview. You don’t have to be pre-law, but a general awareness of what’s going on in the court system of your cit...

My day to day included observing homicide trials, attending sentencing hearings, transcribing prison phone calls to try and discern information/evidence that might be useful in court, creating and organizing the evidence binder for the DA’s, trips to the police academy and the morgue, etc. Once, ...