The newest guessing recreation in Washington is the place former Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Douglas Emhoff, may go subsequent. Half of that query has been answered.
Beginning Monday, Mr. Emhoff will change into a accomplice on the company legislation agency Willkie Farr & Gallagher, splitting his time between Los Angeles and New York. He’ll advise corporations on crises together with litigation and company investigations.
Mr. Emhoff spent a long time as a company lawyer earlier than shifting to Washington. He was a co-founder of a boutique legislation agency in 2000, which he sold to a rival, Venable, in 2006. He left Venable in 2017 for DLA Piper and stepped away full time in 2020, partly to keep away from questions of conflicts of curiosity as soon as his spouse grew to become vice chairman.
His purchasers have included Spotify and Lionsgate. He has additionally represented Willie Gault, the previous Olympic sprinter and N.F.L. star, in a fraud case introduced by the Securities and Exchange Commission; and Mauricio Umansky, the husband of Kyle Richards, a star of “The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills,” in a real estate dispute.
Willkie, which employs greater than 1,200 legal professionals globally, will faucet Mr. Emhoff’s expertise from his authorized profession and as second gentleman within the White Home. By that work, he has amassed a community of key figures in leisure, personal fairness and the company world.
Mr. Emhoff was a visual presence in the course of the presidential marketing campaign, serving to his spouse raise more than $1 billion. He additionally represented the USA in a diplomatic capability at occasions just like the 2024 Olympics in Paris, and led the Biden administration’s efforts to fight antisemitism.
“That acquired him in contact with essential leaders throughout the globe,” stated Thomas M. Cerabino, a co-chairman at Willkie. “We predict that Doug, as a trusted adviser in addition to a lawyer, goes to create alternatives that shall be an unbelievable increase throughout all fronts.”
