One afternoon shortly after the 2001 inauguration, Eric Holder Jr. considered his future from his lavishly appointed office in the Justice Department’s Robert F. Kennedy Building, still his a while longer, until his Republican successor arrived. One of his old friends, Covington & Burling’s Thomas Williamson Jr., was visiting for lunch.
“It was a lengthy lunch, because a number of firms were coming to him to join their partnership,” says Williamson, head of the firm’s employment practice. “I wanted to be sure I didn’t just rely on, ‘Come be my partner because we’re old friends.’ ” Williamson, who met Holder in the late 1970s, says he told the longtime public official that he could channel a portion of his private work into Covington’s pro bono efforts, and he told Holder that the firm could offer exciting work.
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