But now that private firms — once luring away deputy district attorneys and public defenders with fat pay raises — are laying lawyers off, the stream of attorneys from the DA’s office has virtually stopped.

After losing 21 of 221 attorneys in 2000 and an additional 16 in the first eight months of 2001, Assistant District Attorney Karyn Sinunu said the exodus might be over.

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