A very astute Freeper pointed out recently that these people were all brought on board from positions in large, established D.C. law firms. This means two important things:
1. Putting them in charge of this investigation precludes them from working as attorneys for any of the people who may be facing legal trouble over the any of the Obama-era scandals that are surfacing.
2. They can't claim lawyer-client privilege for any of their prior dealings with these Obama/Clinton cronies without compromising the whole Mueller investigation.
Yep.
Note that the Trump legal transition team included high-ups from
McGuireWoods
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
Morrison & Foerster
Kirkland & Ellis
Jones Day
Those are bigly law firms and limited the pool Mueller could draw from.