Justice Department Offers Up to $25,000 Signing Bonuses to Recruit Lawyers for Immigration and Transgender Cases

The Department of Justice is offering signing bonuses of up to $25,000 to recruit lawyers across the country. New job postings highlight New York City, Raleigh, San Francisco and Dallas for positions in the DOJ Civil Division components that handle immigration lawsuits and investigations into transgender medical treatments. -based federal agency.

A DOJ official told Fox News Digital that the effort is a way for the department to look broader by enticing attorneys around the country. "The Department is expanding resources across the country to combat lawless jurisdictions and nationwide injunctions, and there is a need to attract candidates from those new areas," the official said.

The official added that Trump's signature One Big Beautiful Bill Act gave the DOJ millions of dollars to hire more attorneys specifically for those efforts.

The Civil Division is the DOJ's most expansive division and is led by Brett Shumate. It is defending the White House in hundreds of lawsuits. More than a quarter of the DOJ's nearly 13,000 lawyers have quit or been fired since the beginning of last year.

The Trump administration rolled out a "fork in the road" resignation option last year with the stated goal of reducing the size of government. A DOJ official told Fox News Digital that the departures were partly attributable to employees taking the resignation option.

"This has allowed DOJ to run more efficiently and hire new employees who wholeheartedly believe in the work they’re doing," the official said.