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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They're hiring attorneys because the existing attorneys are leaving. They're not leaving because things are awesome. [/quote]

+1.  I read yesterday that in the last year DOJ has lost about 3,400 out of roughly 10,000 attorneys.  34% attrition in one year is insane.[/quote]

It is wild to have that much attrition in one year, I agree. But for context -- in my Division, most of the attorneys who left were already considering retirement within the next year or two, and were already eligible for retirement and took the fork. So, they were retiring soon anyway and thought "Hmm, why not get paid for months of not working with this deferred resignation thing?" The statement from PP that "They're not leaving because things are awesome" is a bit misleading, at least in regard to many of the resignations that made up that 34% attrition in my Division (I use your number, 34% here, but I think it is pretty spot on for our reduction in attorneys, even if not exact -- we lost about 1/3). [/quote]

Something must really suck at DOJ for Chad Mizelle to be recruiting via Twitter/X.  I remember back in law school getting to work for the DOJ was considered a prestigious position.  This is the article I was referencing:  https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/prosecutor-justice-department-trump-79bc6772

It specifically states that "On average, the departing employees had about 14 years of service" so sure some of them were probably retiring but a fair number of them just left.  A few other select quotes:

"Keenan embodies the trend, though his sharp rise in the agency is particularly unusual, current and former prosecutors said. Until recently a line prosecutor near the bottom of the Justice Department org chart, he has become a key courtroom warrior for the administration, taking an ax to Biden-era cases and pursuing politically charged new ones that others have declined."

"Before Trump came along, Keenan, 60, was one of the longest-tenured and least-productive federal prosecutors in the Orange County branch of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, according to former assistant U.S. attorneys.

As a veteran assistant U.S. attorney, passed over for promotions repeatedly in his 24-year career, Keenan was still handling low-level cases typically reserved for first-year federal prosecutors. But his fortunes have flipped: Keenan is now one of the most senior officials in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, parachuting into cases around the country. "

"His colleagues described Keenan as smart and a strong writer. But they said he was a challenge for supervisors and frustrated line prosecutors and federal agents, frequently turning in work late or at the last minute. One colleague became so infuriated with Keenan that he grabbed Keenan by the neck, an incident that became office lore, they said.

Federal court records show that Keenan was lead prosecutor on a total of four indicted cases in 2023 and 2024, all of them for drugs or possession of child pornography, matters often handled by inexperienced assistant U.S. attorneys."

"Some of his more productive colleagues brought nearly eight times as many cases in that time. Others worked fewer but more complex matters that former prosecutors said Keenan rarely handled.

“People would constantly come up to him, ‘What’s going on with this case?’” recalled Richard Cutler, a former prosecutor in the Orange County office who was friends with Keenan. “I remember investigative agencies being loath to bring him anything because he was a black hole.”

Keenan told a story at lunch one day that colleagues said neatly captured what they saw as his lack of urgency: A critter of some sort had broken into his apartment the previous night, leaving behind a pile of feces. Keenan said he’d been pressed for time and left the mess there. He’d get to it later."[/quote]

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