Reply #6: Kirkland & Ellis -- Learn all about them.

[JDPriestly]

Brian Benczkowski, who has led the Senate Judiciary Committee's Republican staff through two U.S. Supreme Court nominations, is leaving Capitol Hill for private practice.

His departure from the staff was announced publicly at a committee meeting this morning by his boss, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), the committee’s ranking Republican. A source familiar with Benczkowski’s plans said later that the firm he is joining is Kirkland & Ellis, though the source did not know what his title would be.

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http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2010/09/top-republican-aide-headed-to-kirkland-ellis.html

Their home website

http://www.kirkland.com/

Some of Wikipedia's information (controversial). Take it with a grain of salt.

In August 1994 pursuant to the newly-reenacted independent counsel law, Starr was appointed by a three-judge panel to continue the Whitewater investigation. He replaced Robert B. Fiske, a moderate Republican who had been appointed by Attorney General Janet Reno.<11> Although Starr and other independent counsels were later criticized as unaccountable and unstoppable, the statute gave the Attorney General and the Special Division the authority to remove an independent counsel.

Starr took the position part-time and remained active with his law firm, Kirkland & Ellis, as this was permitted by statute and was also the norm with previous independent counsel investigations .<12> . . . .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Starr