The California Attorney General�s Office may have to lay off more than 100 of its lawyers by early next year under the state budget currently being negotiated, a spokesman for Attorney General Bill Lockyer said yesterday.
A memo sent to employees on Friday, a copy of which was obtained by the MetNews, lays out a �worst-case scenario,� Nathan Barankin explained.
�We continue to work every day for any viable option we have,� Barankin insisted. But Lockyer�s chief deputies, Steve Coony and Rick Frank, sent the memo out �so all of the employees...know how dire our circumstances are,� the spokesman explained.
Apparently, the memo has caused the mood among California's Deputy Attorney Generals (several of whom are among my friends) to become "unspeakably grim." I wish everyone the best -- I've been laid off myself in the past, and it's no fun at all. Details here from the Metropolitan News-Enterprise.