In further fallout from the recession, the state’s budget impasse and the city’s fiscal woes, the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office and the Defender Association of Philadelphia are not participating in this year’s on-campus recruiting season of future lawyers.
District Attorney Lynne Abraham said in an interview after a press conference Wednesday that she was disappointed that her office can’t recruit on campus at area law schools this year because many of the office’s entry-level prosecutors are hired from those schools. Abraham said Philadelphia already suffers from the loss of some of its well-educated young, and the economic situation will only contribute to that “brain drain.”
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