[ by Melanie Gretchen ] The public sector continues to lose its ranks to the private sector.  This season, Baker & McKenzie LLP hired former DOJ attorney Jonathan Poling who will join Baker & McKenzie LLP’s Washington office as a partner in the trade-compliance practice. At the Department of Justice, Mr. Poling worked as a trial attorney with the National Security Division, Counterespionage Section.  There, he prosecuted dozens of export control, counter proliferation and trade-related cases involving violations of the Arms Export Control Act, International Emergency Economic Powers Act, and fraud and money laundering statutes, the firm said. At Baker & McKenzie's Washington office, he will join more than 3,800 lawyers in 70 offices in 43 countries. For further details, go to [Bloomberg, 7/18/12].