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Is it possible to transfer to a different US Attorneys Office as an AUSA. For example, going from an AUSA at EDNY to an AUSA at S.D. Fla. Or would you have to go through the application process again?

You have to apply for the new office as a new applicant.

It's not really either of the options above. You would have to apply through USA jobs, interview, etc, but you'd already have a security clearance, which means 1 you can start right away and 2 the new office saves money by not having to do a new background check.

Thanks for the replies. Make sense.

I work at a USAO that gets lots of transfer applications from other USAOs and main justice. I'm not on the hiring committee, so I don't have a ton of insight into how those candidates are evaluated, except to say that the process remains competitive, and we regularly hire people without prosecutorial experience over people who come from other USAOs.

My impression is that a lot of inter-office mobility is driven by the relationships that your supervisors have with the new office. In other words, a full-court press coming from senior people that the new office knows/respects will go a long way.

nickelanddime wrote:I work at a USAO that gets lots of transfer applications from other USAOs and main justice. I'm not on the hiring committee, so I don't have a ton of insight into how those candidates are evaluated, except to say that the process remains competitive, and we regularly hire people without prosecutorial experience over people who come from other USAOs.

My impression is that a lot of inter-office mobility is driven by the relationships that your supervisors have with the new office. In other words, a full-court press coming from senior people that the new office knows/respects will go a long way.

That’s strange to me. I get if someone was a SAUSA or a guns and drugs prosecutor for 6 months and applying to SDNY. But for almost any other fact pattern, it seems like a current AUSA would be so much more impactful so much more quickly than someone without any prosecutor experience.