Beth Brinkmann, a deputy assistant attorney general for the past eight years who headed the civil division’s appellate staff at the U.S. Department of Justice, has chosen Covington & Burling for her post-Obama administration landing.
Brinkmann will be co-leader of the appellate practice at Covington, said the firm’s current practice head, Robert Long. Before she joined the Obama administration, Brinkmann was a partner at Morrison & Foerster, where she was mentioned as potentially becoming the nation’s first female solicitor general.
