The FT is reporting on all those lawyers jumping ship before it sinks on them…
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US government lawyers are clamouring for jobs at corporate law firms in anticipation of vast cuts to the administrative state under Donald Trump. Hundreds of employees from agencies including the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Federal Trade Commission have been sending prospective applications to major firms, their leaders told the Financial Times. “The last couple of weeks have been chock full of meetings with law firm leaders?.?.?.?telling me they are seeing applications from all different agencies,” said Michelle Fivel, a recruiter at Hatch Henderson Fivel, who has also been contacted directly by government employees.
One department chair at a leading New York firm, who asked not to be named, said they were “deluged” by resumes, including from lawyers with decades of government experience.
While such churn is common whenever the White House changes hands, this year’s is higher than average, Fivel and the law firms leaders said.
Political appointees in the upper echelons of critical agencies tend to resign or be forced out under a new administration, but the attempted exodus from government is now extending to career civil servants, the people said, as lawyers expect whole teams to be culled and regulations to be slashed.
The president-elect has vowed to eliminate the Department of Education in its entirety, while his allies have floated the prospect of downsizing the DoJ, closing the FBI and shrinking other agencies.
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https://www.ft.com/content/96b47589-2867-494e-a225-f8cde00463ed
