According to Wikipedia:
[Attorneys at Covington & Burling have been Guantanamo Bay attorneys for Ahmed al-Ghailani[29] fifteen Yemenis, one Pakistani, and one Algerian being held at Guantanamo Bay. The firm obtained favorable rulings that detainees have rights under the Fifth Amendment and the Geneva Conventions. . .Covington lawyers spent 3,022 hours on Guantánamo litigation in 2007, “the firm’s largest pro bono project that year”. Lawyers from the firm who have become (Obama) administration officials have been advised by ethics officials to recuse themselves in matters involving detainees represented by their former firms, but not from policy issues where they were not personally and substantially involved. Lanny Breuer is one of those who has had to recuse on from some matters since leaving the firm for a government position. Covington also co-authored one of three petitioners’ briefs filed in Boumediene v. Bush, “and was responsible for several detainee victories” in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. “At least one high-ranking appointee played a key role in advancing detainees’ rights,” but they did not participate in litigation over the Guantanamo Bay prison itself. . .]
Holder's agenda has included establishing full constitutional rights for detainees and advocating federal court over a military tribunal for detainee cases. At some point, I believe, Covington & Burling would represent current and former detainees in lawsuits against the U.S. government charging unlawful imprisonment, torture and associated injuries, defamation, loss of income, etc. In potential fees and damages awards could be in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/01/23/pay-attention-to-eric-holders-law-firm-and-gitmo-detainees/
Thanks for that info.