Top Government Contracts Partner Leaves Covington

Robert Nichols, a partner at Covington & Burling who helped lead the firm’s charge to grow its government contracts practice, has left the firm after four years.

As of Wednesday, his biography was taken down from the firm’s website and a Covington spokesman wished him well.

No official word yet on his future plans. A Big Law Business inquiry to reach Nichols, placed through the firm, hasn’t been returned. But one source familiar with his transition said that Nichols intends to start his own law boutique specializing in government contracts.

Below are his list of representative matters, according to an archived ...