Holder returned to the same Covington & Burling office (literally his old physical desk was kept available, per the New Republic) that he had occupied before joining DOJ. Covington's roster of clients included multiple corporations under active DOJ investigation during his AG tenure (notably the major banks Holder declined to indict over 2008-crisis-era conduct, citing 'too big to jail' concerns in a 2013 Senate hearing).
18 U.S.C. �207(c) � one-year cooling-off period for senior officials
Holder represented Covington clients (including JPMorgan and Bank of America) on matters that overlapped with active DOJ investigations he had personally overseen as Attorney General, within the one-year senior-official cooling-off window. The New Republic and the Project On Government Oversight both reported on the resumption of representational work and the firm having kept his physical office vacant for his return.
evidence source ↗No other documented transitions on file for this entity.
Open the Eric Holder Jr. dossier for connections, donations, and other ledger rows on the same entity. Open the Covington & Burling LLP dossier for everyone else who's revolved through that destination.
https://www.goblinhouse.net/revolving-door/1Goblin House. "Eric Holder Jr.: prior employer → Covington & Burling LLP" (revolving-door transition). Goblin House — The Architecture of Secrecy. Accessed October 17, 2026. https://www.goblinhouse.net/revolving-door/1.Sourced from public records and content-hashed; verify via /attestation, standard at /methodology.