NBCNews.comEric Holder, Former Attorney General, Returning to Covington & Burling Law FirmNBCNews.comEric Holder, the former U.S. attorney general, will return as a partner at the law firm he had exited more than five years ago to join the Obama administration, according to a statement from the firm. Holder, who ran the Justice Department from 2009 to ...Eric Holder, former US attorney general, to return to law firmReutersFormer AG Eric Holder returning to private law practiceU.S.