Awaiting Attorney General, DOJ Begins Stocking Its Ranks

As their nominations move forward for attorney general and deputy AG, Eric Holder Jr. and David Ogden, who have split their time since the mid-’90s between the Justice Department and Big Law, are drawing on that experience to recruit their top assistants. Holder and Ogden are preparing to surround themselves with lawyers from Covington & Burling and from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr — their respective firms for the last eight years — as well as from the ranks of the Clinton-era DOJ.