Covington's policy team adds ex-Senate Judiciary general counsel

Covington's policy team adds ex-Senate Judiciary general counsel

September 7, 2021, Reuters

Nick Xenakis’s Covington arrival was covered in Reuters, where he will be a member of Covington’s public policy team. Nick said his move to the private sector was "a long time" in the making. "I've spent my entire career in public service, or the government--working right out of law school, after clerking, as a public defender, and then at the Hill," he said. His new challenge, he said, will be taking bills and "trying to translate those into the private sector."

In addition, Nick said he is eager to dive into technology advisory work amid the national debate over antitrust enforcement, privacy and liability shields for companies posting third-party material from users. 

When asked about clerking for Judge Robert King on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Nick stated, “I learned more about law in that one year clerking for Judge King than I did in three years of law school. I was really lucky," he told Reuters. "Judge King was somebody who really relied on his clerks for writing all the opinions and bench memos and he sat there willing to talk through cases.”

Nick stated that King would often remind his law clerks that the "cases are about real people and there can be real consequences." Nick continued to describe King as "very much like Senator Feinstein in some ways" for having an ability to "cultivate relationships across the aisle."