Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Andrew Boutros left the Northern District as an assistant U.S. attorney around 10 years ago. He is returning as the interim chief prosecutor during a tumultuous time in the Justice Department.
Police departments would not be able to make final offers of employment for probationary or law enforcement officers unless they review all past employment records, including background investigation materials, duty-related physical and psychological fitness-for-duty examinations, work performance records, arrests, convictions, and any records of criminal, civil, or administrative investigations of conduct.
President Donald Trump has directed the U.S. Justice Department to mobilize law firms to defend police officers unjustly accused of misconduct free of charge, marking the latest effort to steer the work of private lawyers to his administration's ends.
The attrition rate for associates in law firms was 20% in 2024, up from 18% in 2023 but still lower than the historic high of 26% in 2021, according to the NALP Foundation for Law Career Research and Education.
There are well over 100 lawsuits that have been filed against the Trump Administration, and the Illinois attorney general is involved in a number of them.