Lawyers fresh out of law school can begin working for the DOJ so long as they are a U.S. citizen and have passed the bar exam

Staffing shortages at the Department of Justice, which have plagued the organization for the last year, have led officials to drop minimum experience requirements for job openings to attract talent fresh out of law school.

The DOJ told U.S. attorney offices earlier this month that a one-year experience requirement for new hires would be suspended “due to an exigent hiring need for attorneys across the Department”, according to a memo seen by Bloomberg Law.

In job postings for assistant U.S. attorneys in Alaska, Montana, New Hampshire and Oklahoma, applicants are only required to possess a law degree, have passed the state bar exam and be a U.S. citizen.

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    I for one, cannot wait for the shit show that is about to happen when a bunch of lawyers who do not know the law go in front of judges

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      It has been happening under Trump for a long time already. Lawyers making insane arguments, making mistakes that have never been made in history, purposely ignoring orders from judges, actively conspiring to lie, etc.

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    BANANA!

    USA is a banana republic.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic

    Key elements are corruption, inequality, a large portion of the population is poor, exploitation of the people, and an oligarchy that are in control together with corrupt politicians and military. In the case of USA the military may be more the agencies like ICE, FBI NSA etc, but the term was coined 120 years ago, and back then the massive agencies of USA under federal control did not exist.

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    So you will hire them now, without experience, and pay them while they get experience, which doesn’t help with what needs done right now, instead of hiring them after they have the experience?

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    This sounds like a great idea. Lowering the standards for hiring has never gone bad whatsoever.