Following up on Friday's posts:

• Department Of Justice Rescinds Job Offers To 3Ls Accepted Into Honors Program
• IRS Chief Counsel Rescinds Job Offers To 3Ls Accepted Into Honors Program

Reuters, Trump's Hiring Freeze Leaves Thousands of Law Students Out in the Cold:

A widespread federal government hiring freeze imposed by President Donald Trump last week has upended the job market for a wide swath of law students interested in government careers.

The U.S. Department of Justice and other federal agencies revoked permanent job offers to dozens of third-year law students hired through their prestigious and competitive honors programs in recent days and agencies have canceled summer internship programs, eliminating opportunities for hundreds more. Federal agencies have also pulled out of law student recruiting events and removed legal job postings from their websites.

The move has disrupted career plans for law students with permanent jobs lined up in federal agencies and those hoping to land summer internships to bolster their resume. More than 2,000 jobs and summer internships are canceled or on hold.

Trump’s 90-day hiring freeze among executive branch-agencies does not impact judicial clerkships with federal judges, which are funded separately and typically employ about 1,200 recent law grads annually.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Monday about the hiring freeze and its impact on federal agency lawyers.

Derek Muller (Notre Dame), Federal Government Hiring Freeze Could Dramatically Affect Some Law Schools' Employment Outcomes:

The reports are coming in from law schools around the country about law students, either about to graduate or set for summer employment, losing positions in the federal government as the result of a recently-initiated hiring freeze. …

Law school employment metrics often look to “full weight” jobs—full-time, long-term, bar passage-required to JD-advantage jobs. And for some schools, the number of recent graduates placed into government jobs can vary dramatically from school to school [e.g., Albany 27.9%, Dayton 25.4%, South Dakota 24.1%, Regent 22.6%, Northern Kentucky 22.4%, … UCLA 2.2%, USC 2.2%, Penn 2.0%, Cornell 1.7%, Chicago 0.5%].

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