Trump/DOGE Firings ARE helping Law Firms Sign up Lawyers to Fight The Firings…

“There are a large number of firms known for representing federal employees who are looking for talent right now,” Savage said. “It’s a very busy time.”

It’s an exception that proves the rule in a region reeling from unprecedented federal cutbacks.

D.C.’s chief financial officer has projected a multi-year loss of 40,000 jobs — a fifth of the 200,000 federal positions currently based inside the city limits. The dynamic has already glutted the market with international-aid specialists, environmental-regulation experts and education-grant administrators — the sort of highly-skilled, narrow expertise that abounds in the public sector.

But now the sheer scale of the cuts means a lot of those folks are going to be seeking yet another type of obscure Washington expert: The specialist in the intricacies of the Merit Systems Protection Board, the body that’s supposed to protect the federal workforce against illegal or political firings. Some of the lawyers jumping into the fray are doing it in order to stick it to the Trump administration. Others are interested for a more old-fashioned reason: It’s where the business is.

“Obviously there’s a tremendous demand,” said Pamela Hicks, a longtime federal lawyer who this year hung out a shingle for a new firm built around representing feds against their bosses. “And it’s a demand that’s being outpaced by the supply of people who’ve been wrongfully terminated, demoted, transferred, harassed, targeted, pick your word.”…

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The established players in the formerly quiet field of federal employment law are also seeing a spike in business. “We’ve been very very busy since January,” said Stephanie Rapp-Tully, who has handled employment cases for a decade. She said that some weeks in 2025, she’s had double the hours she did a year earlier. “There were months, and I’m still going through it, where I feel like I didn’t sleep. I’ve never stopped working.”

Rapp-Tully said she’s also seen a spike in interest from job-seekers, motivated by wanting to be where the action is in a newly newsy sector. A lot of the recent entrants are themselves former federal attorneys who until recently may have been on the other side of employment cases. The firm has just taken in its largest-ever class of summer law clerks coming out of law school….

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But the particular surge in this one sector of the law is a bit like how soup-kitchen employment grew like gangbusters during the Great Depression. In the process, it provides an early glimpse of the scale of job losses. According to the dozen or so employment attorneys I spoke with, a lot of their calls are from people who remain employed but are worried about getting their documentation together before the axe falls…

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As the lion’s share of federal reductions in force have yet to happen, the sorts of reactions the employment lawyers are seeing also offers an early sense of what the capital may experience as the Trump job cuts go into full effect. Right now, a reported 154,000 departing feds are still being paid under the fork-in-the-road deferred resignation plan. But that will end next month….

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“What I thought months ago is we would see a huge influx of RIFs, quickly done and with a lot of error,” she said. “Instead, we saw two rounds of the [deferred resignation program]. We saw many emails that said ‘RIFs are coming, resign now, get out. But if you’re looking at the whole federal government, there are not a lot of actual RIFs, which tells me that the administration is aware that these are things that get litigated. …

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The above post IS about what goes on ‘under the hood’ that the media often does not follow up on….

The story does just stop with Layoff/RIF memo’s….

Trump & Co. have, and will be a bonaza for lawyers seeking to undo the actions they have done….

The trail they have left bewhin d WILL haunt them Legally for years to come….