DOJ Rescinds Job Offers to Law Students Amid Hiring Freeze - Articles

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Posted by: Azya Thornton on Jan 24, 2025

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has rescinded job offers to law students set to join the agency this year. The cuts, made this week, affect third-year law students who had been accepted into the Justice Department’s highly competitive Attorney General's Honors Program, which places new law graduates in entry-level jobs throughout the agency’s divisions, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration. According to Reuters, President Donald Trump announced a temporary hiring freeze on federal jobs in a speech following his inauguration and followed up with an executive order calling for the development of a federal hiring plan to "restore merit to government service" within 120 days. It is unclear whether the job revocations extend beyond the DOJ. Students whose offers were rescinded this week received a brief email from the DOJ’s Office of Attorney Recruitment and Management, attributing the decision to the "hiring freeze announced Jan. 20."