FTC Lawyers Leave at Fastest Rate in Years as Khan Sets New Tone

The Federal Trade Commission’s senior attorneys are leaving at a pace not seen in at least two decades, adding to the challenges facing the agency as it pursues expansive rulemaking.

Seventy-one “line staff” attorneys—non-leadership senior attorneys at the top of the federal government pay scale, known as GS-15s—left the agency in the two-year period between 2021 and 2022, according to data obtained by Bloomberg Law under the federal Freedom of Information Act. That’s the highest number of departures in the category for a comparable two-year period since 2000.

The wave of departures comes as the FTC undertakes an ambitious rulemaking ...