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Look: It’s odd the second gentleman is their teacher. But we kind of dispensed with that … maybe five minutes in the first class. Now, it’s just they want to learn, they want to be great lawyers and I’m trying to impart to them experiences as a lawyer.
— Doug Emhoff, commenting earlier this month on his new roles as a professor at Georgetown Law and the first Second Gentleman of the United States. Emhoff is teaching “Entertainment Law Disputes,” a two-credit course. Emhoff, a former partner at DLA Piper, said of his former Biglaw career, “I do miss it. I did it for 30 years, I thought I was good at it and successful, but what an opportunity, if I’m gonna leave to be able to be in this administration, and also to support my wife. I mean, she’s the first female vice president. I’m so proud of her.”
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