From an email obtained from Acting AAG Jocelyn Samuels:

One DOJ staffer leaves to work for Soros:

“I am writing to inform you of two upcoming staffing changes in the Civil Rights Division’s Front Office. Unfortunately for us, Eric Halperin will be leaving this month for a position as a senior fellow at the Open Society Foundation where he will focus on housing and credit issues.
Anyone who worked Eric during his four years in the Front Office knows of his unfailing commitment to civil rights and tremendous contributions to the work of this Division. To list just one example: under his oversight, the Division’s fair lending unit has obtained more than $775 million in monetary relief for impacted communities. I am incredibly grateful for his leadership in overseeing the work of the Employment Litigation and Housing and Civil Enforcement Sections. It is a loss to see him go, but I know we are all excited to see all that he will accomplish in his new position.”

A new DOJ staffer with a questionable record of scholarship comes to DOJ:

“Second, it is my pleasure to announce that Pamela Karlan will be joining the Division’s Front Office as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General where she will review the Voting Section. One of the nation’s leading experts on voting and the political process, Pamela has served as a commissioner on the California Fair Political Practices Commission and an assistant counsel and cooperating attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1998, she was a professor of law at the University of Virginia School of Law and served as a law clerk to Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Abraham
D. Sofaer of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She will be starting on January 13; please join me in welcoming her to the Division. “