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Douglas Emhoff (born 1964) is an American attorney. He is currently a litigator and partner at the law firm DLA Piper, and was formerly a partner and managing director at Venable LLP. He lives in California, and is also the husband of Kamala Harris.

Early life and education
Emhoff was born in 1964 in New York. He and graduated from California State University, Northridge with a B.A in 1987 and from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law with a J.D. in 1990. Emhoff was admitted to both the State Bar of California and the District of Columbia Bar.

Career
Emhoff specializes in business, entertainment, and intellectual property litigation.

In 1990, Emhoff joined Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP as an associate attorney in the Greater Los Angeles Area. In 1993, Emoff joined Bingham McCutchen LLP, still working in the Greater Los Angeles Area. In 1995, Emhoof moved back to Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP and worked there for the following three years. In 1998, he joined Belin Rawlings & Badal in Los Angeles as a special prosecutor. He became a partner at the firm in 2000. From 2000 to 2006, Emhoff worked as a part of Whitwell Jacoby Emhoff LLP in Beverly Hills.

Emhoff joined Venable LLP in 2006 as a founding partner of the Los Angeles office. In 2013, Emhoff also helped found the San Francisco office. Emhoff worked at both offices and served as partner in charge of the Los Angeles office until 2015. In 2015, Emhoff was promoted to Managing Director of West Coast, where he was in charge and had oversight of Venable's office in Los Angeles and the office in San Francisco. He left Venable in September 2017. At Venable, Emhoff was also a law partner of Karl Racine.

In October 2017, Emhoff joined the law firm DLA Piper as a litigator and partner.

Emhoff has been a featured speaker at the Association of Independent Commercial Producers symposiums in Los Angeles and New York.

Emhoff is a member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, Beverly Hills County Bar Association, and District of Columbia Bar Association.

Awards and recognition

 * Southern California Super Lawyers, Business Litigation, 2006–2010
 * AV® Preeminent™ Peer-Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
 * The Best Lawyers in America for Litigation - Intellectual Property, 2014–2018

Courts

 * United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
 * United States District Court for the Central District of California
 * United States District Court for the District of Columbia
 * United States District Court for the Eastern District of California
 * United States District Court for the Northern District of California
 * United States District Court for the Southern District of California

Personal life
Emhoff married American attorney and politician Kamala Harris in 2014. He has two children from a prior marriage with Kerstin Emhoff. According to tax returns released by Emhoff and Harris in 2016. they earned $1.7 million, paid approximately $450,000 in taxes, and gave $32,947 to charity. Emhoff also sold off all of his assets and stocks before his wife, Kamala Harris, ran for the United States Senate in 2016.

Kamala Harris is running in the 2020 United States presidential election, and if she became president, Emhoff would become the inaugural "First Man" or "First Gentleman" of the United States. This scenario has garnered attention and speculation in the media. Emhoff and his wife are also both Jewish.

https://www.vogue.com/article/kamala-harris-interview-vogue-april-2018