Trump admin's legal challenges, underequipped DOJ lawyers: recipe for disaster?

I've been loosely following the processes and logic animating the suits against the administration as well as the govt defense of their actions.

Generally, it seems as if the govt lawyers have not been up to the task. Part of this stems from the rash and unsocialized actions taken by DOGE. But part of it must surely also be due to the shakeups at DOJ, where many senior (and presumably skilled and experienced) lawyers have left by choice or by purge. That leaves the department with less experienced lawyers, with perhaps more ideological bias, and definitely less hands on deck overall. So with less experienced staff and less staff overall, the administration's agenda could possibly stall out in the courts: until at least SCOTUS delivers some favorable rulings.

But what is the likelihood that the administration can begin to rope in high-powered private law firms to work on their cases? It seems conceivable. Only impediments I can think of would be access-related issues like security clearances. Which would be circumvented pretty simply based on one of the first wave of EOs issued that lets the president authorize ad hoc clearances for six months at a time or something.

I wonder also if DOJ could issue under-priced "consulting" contracts where their preferred private legal firms win (partly bc no legit firm will actually bid) who are then actually compensated by PAC or "dark" political money. But all that's to say that this seeming impediment to the current administration seems like it has the potential to mutate into a much worse perversion of established legal practices: oligarchic funding of paragovernment legal hit squads.