The West Virginia Attorney General's Office has lost three top
staff members to the Legislature.
The Associated Press reports senior
deputy attorney general Marty Wright has accepted a job as the House Judiciary
Committee's head lawyer.
Senior deputy attorney general Richie
Heath is now chief counsel to incoming Senate President Bill Cole.
Senior deputy attorney general Tracy
Webb has accepted a job as head lawyer of the House Government Organization
Committee.
The positions came open after
Republicans won control of the Legislature for the first time in more than
eight decades.