Lockyer may have to cut 118 lawyers

[Kadie]

Lockyer may have to cut 118 lawyers

Budget crunch also may put another 167 AG positions at risk.

By Gary Delsohn -- Bee Capitol Bureau
Published 2:15 am PDT Wednesday, July 14, 2004

For the first time in more than a decade, the California attorney general's office is preparing to lay off a sizable chunk of its legal and administrative staff.

With budget troubles persisting, layoff notices are expected to be sent to as many as 118 Department of Justice lawyers and 167 support employees in the next week or two, officials said Tuesday.

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If the layoffs occur, officials said it would be harder to prosecute cases against fraud and illegal polluters. Recently hired lawyers would be the first to go.

Officials said the agency, which also employs about 4,500 non-lawyers, would have to cut back on its much-touted Energy Task Force, which Lockyer says has generated more than $2 billion in settlements related to market manipulation and other unlawful action during the state's energy crisis in 2000 and 2001.


http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/9991856p-10913365c.html

[mitchtv]

1. he can start by resigning, that's one

one less traitor.