The National Law Journal has the article Holder’s Return to Covington Was Six Years in the Making.

Eric Holder Jr. didn’t wear a tie, didn’t stand to speak, didn’t have his security detail hovering when he reintroduced himself to Covington & Burling’s law partners a few weeks ago. He didn’t need to. They already knew him.

The 900-lawyer firm celebrates a homecoming this week as Holder, the nation’s first black attorney general, rejoins the firm as a white-collar partner. Covington plans to announce the news Monday, and his official start date will be in September.

“This is home for me,” Holder said. Margaret Richardson, his former chief of staff, also is joining the firm as an of counsel.

Holder, 64, left the U.S. Department of Justice in April after serving for six years. Before that, he had been a partner at Covington from 2001 to January 2009.

I was just saying that perhaps Jimmy Carter was the last honest President we had. Although, I didn’t know what skeletons might have been in his closet, or might have taken up residence sine he left office. Then I read this quote from this article about Holder’s plans for his “new” career..

He said he wouldn’t necessarily model his practice after any other well-regarded Washington lawyer, though he did mention his respect for the practice and law firm involvement of former Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti. Civiletti served at the end of the Carter administration as AG, led Venable until 2006 and was the first lawyer in the U.S. to report a $1,000 hourly rate.