Trump Administration Sees Striking Exodus of Legal Talent NYT | Top Stories By: Eileen Sullivan and Andrea Fuller 31 May 2026 at 17:01 The departure of more than 10,000 federal lawyers has left some agencies without sufficient staff and has boosted the ranks of state attorneys general offices and advocacy groups. © Rachel Woolf for The New York TimesPhil Weiser, the Colorado attorney general, with some of the 22 lawyers from across the federal government that he has hired since May of last year.