The transition team for President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday named Ronald A. Klain, a former lobbyist and Clinton administration lawyer as chief of staff to Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.

According to the New York Times, “Mr. Klain, 47, was also chief of staff to Vice President Al Gore since 2005, he has been an executive at Revolution, an investment company started by Stephen M. Case, a co-founder of AOL.”

After departing from the Clinton administration, Mr. Klain was a lobbyist at the law firm O’Melveny & Myers, where he worked for clients such as Fannie Mae, the mortgage giant now being run by the federal government; an industry group seeking help with asbestos lawsuits; ImClone, a drug maker under federal investigation; and the cable and media giant Time Warner.

Mr. Klain, earlier in his career, was chief counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee when Mr. Biden was its chairman, a period that involved the Supreme Court confirmation hearing of Clarence Thomas. Mr. Klain also helped handle judicial confirmation as an attorney in the Clinton White House and he worked on the Senate Democratic staff underneath the former majority leader, Tom Daschle of South Dakota.

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