One group of Justice Department attorneys seeks pay parity with another

Published: Sept. 28, 2021, 2:53 p.m.

b"At the Justice Department, assistant U.S. attorneys and trial attorneys are both, well, lawyers that do litigation. But they work under different pay systems. The assistant U.S. attorneys say that on the whole, everyone else earns more. And they've asked department's management division to move them from administratively determined pay to the regular General Schedule -- like the trial attorneys. Adam Hanna is an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of Illinois, and co-chair of the compensation committee of the National Association of Assistant U.S. Attorneys. He talked about the pay issues with Tom Temin.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"