(l-r) Eric Holder Jr., Steven Fagell, Lanny Breuer, Nancy Kestenbaum, and Mythili Raman, of Covington & Burling, one of the overall finalists for Litigation Departments of the Year for the January issue of The American Lawyer magazine. November 1, 2017. (Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi)
In the judge’s robing room, Covington & Burling partner Nancy Kestenbaum could sense they had made an impression.
It was March 2017 at a federal courthouse in New Jersey and Kestenbaum and her co-counsel, former Secretary of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, were trying to keep David Samson out of jail. Samson had resigned as chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey after getting caught up in the criminal investigation into the politically motivated move by Gov. Chris Christie’s aides to close lanes on the George Washington Bridge. He avoided charges directly related to the so-called Bridgegate scandal.
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