{"id":143719,"date":"2026-02-09T16:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T00:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/02\/09\/once-elite-doj-is-now-desperate-for-lawyers-resorts-to-forward-this-to-a-friend-recruiting\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T16:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T00:05:11","slug":"once-elite-doj-is-now-desperate-for-lawyers-resorts-to-forward-this-to-a-friend-recruiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/02\/09\/once-elite-doj-is-now-desperate-for-lawyers-resorts-to-forward-this-to-a-friend-recruiting\/","title":{"rendered":"Once-Elite DOJ Is Now Desperate For Lawyers, Resorts To \u2018Forward This To A Friend\u2019 Recruiting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

I was astonished. I have never seen anything like that. When I came to the U.S. attorney\u2019s office, I had won 13 state murder prosecutions, and I still thought I had such a slim chance of getting a job because it was such an ultracompetitive place. Now it\u2019s like, \u2018If you ever threw a pass, do you want to be a quarterback?\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Mark Rotert, a former federal prosecutor who worked as a U.S. attorney in Chicago, in comments given to the Washington Post<\/a>, concerning the Department of Justice and its odd recruiting methods, following an exodus of qualified lawyers. Rotert recently received an email encouraging former prosecutors to apply for work, and asking that they forward the recruiting email to a friend<\/strong> (Rotert was one of those friends). <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Once-Elite DOJ Is Now Desperate For Lawyers, Resorts To \u2018Forward This To A Friend\u2019 Recruiting<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

I was astonished. I have never seen anything like that. When I came to the U.S. attorney\u2019s office, I had won 13 state murder prosecutions, and I still thought I had such a slim chance of getting a job because it was such an ultracompetitive place. Now it\u2019s like, \u2018If you ever threw a pass, do you want to be a quarterback?\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Mark Rotert, a former federal prosecutor who worked as a U.S. attorney in Chicago, in comments given to the Washington Post<\/a>, concerning the Department of Justice and its odd recruiting methods, following an exodus of qualified lawyers. Rotert recently received an email encouraging former prosecutors to apply for work, and asking that they forward the recruiting email to a friend<\/strong> (Rotert was one of those friends). <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Once-Elite DOJ Is Now Desperate For Lawyers, Resorts To \u2018Forward This To A Friend\u2019 Recruiting<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. I was astonished. I have never seen anything like that. When I came to the U.S. attorney\u2019s office, I had won 13 state murder prosecutions, and I still thought I had such a slim chance of getting a job because it was such an ultracompetitive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":143720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Staci-Zaretsky-rcVPU9.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}