Venable has added Thomas Boyd as a partner and co-chair of its government and legislative affairs practice in Washington, the firm announced Tuesday. Boyd was a partner at DLA Piper for more than a decade, and he formerly co-chaired DLA Piper’s government affairs and regulatory practice.

Boyd served as assistant attorney general in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations from 1987 to 1989, and then led the Justice Department’s Office of Policy Development from 1989 until 1991.