When a new administration comes to Washington, top government regulators flock to the exits to find new jobs, but they seldom have to look very far.
A few parley their experience into corporate counsel jobs or trade up to a more rarefied law firm than the one they had left earlier.
But most of them, like Eric H. Holder Jr., the former United States attorney general, or Mary Jo White, former chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, simply return to their previous law firms.
via Ex-Obama Officials Find There’s No Place Like Their Old Law Firms – The New York Times
