The Post profiles Williams & Connolly’s Robert Barnett today.

To list Barnett as a signifier of Washington connectedness is like calling the sun a symbol of heat. This is good for his clients, who pay him $975 an hour, but Barnett’s virtual monopoly on the specialty of helping public figures cash in — on power memoirs, on private-sector jobs — invests in one man a remarkable degree of influence across the political spectrum. The yearning to profit after a career in politics is an age-old Washington instinct, but the rise of Barnett’s one-stop shop is a story not widely known.