Biden administration Vice President Kamala Harris may have been defeated in November, but her husband, Doug Emhoff, has already parachuted into his next plum position: a partnership at a powerful progressive establishment law firm that has represented George Soros in court on multiple occasions.
“Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP [on Jan. 27] announced that Douglas C. Emhoff has joined the Firm as a partner,” a corporate release gushed. “Mr. Emhoff returns to private practice after serving as Second Gentleman of the United States.”
It’s no secret why Willkie would covet Mr. Kamala Harris. Emhoff’s four years at the center of the Biden orbit “got him in touch with very important leaders across the globe,” the firm’s Co-Chairman Thomas M. Cerabino told The New York Times. “We think that Doug, as a trusted adviser as well as a lawyer, is going to create opportunities that will be an incredible boost across all fronts.”
In the Swamp, you’re never really a loser once you’re plugged into the machine.
Emhoff Back in His Environment
Willkie and Emhoff are a perfect match. Before his stint as second gentleman, Emhoff was a towering behind-the-scenes figure in progressive business and legal circles that frequently intertwined. Emhoff served as a partner at global law firm DLA Piper until taking a leave of absence in 2020. DLA Piper has offices in more than 40 countries around the world and brings in annual revenues in the billions of dollars.
His new business concern has expanded exponentially over the last decade, more than doubling its staff of lawyers to over 1,100 and seeing its earnings correspondingly soar. The firm now operates in 15 countries. In 2023, it brought in $1.5 billion in annual revenue.
Willkie is unabashedly committed to leftist social values.
“Among the hallmarks of our core values and culture is our long-standing commitment to serving the underprivileged, promoting social justice, and supporting the communities in which we live and work,” a “Corporate Citizenship” section of the firm’s website states.
“Pro Bono” partnership with activist progressive organizations is the main tool in Willkie’s political arsenal.
“In 2024, Willkie attorneys worked on more than 735 pro bono matters with over 245 new pro bono matters opened in 2024 alone,” the firm crows. A partial list says it all:
“Lawyers for Racial Justice, a long-term initiative through the Lawyers for Good Government, addressing issues such as voting rights, immigration and police reform.
“Legal Alliance for Reproductive Rights, a nationwide coalition of law firms offering pro bono legal services to individuals seeking reproductive care in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson. Willkie is also a member of the Southern California Legal Alliance for Reproductive Justice.
“The Law Firm Antiracism Alliance, a private law firm collaboration with the goal of dedicating pro bono resources to address systemic racism.”
In 2019, Willkie joined with several pro-illegal alien advocacy groups to file a lawsuit against first-term President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency to fund construction of a border wall. “[I]n the lead up to signing his emergency proclamation, the President has repeatedly slandered and demonized border and Latino immigrant communities as sources of crime, drugs, and violence,” a statement announcing the lawsuit read.
Soros Is a Specialty
Willkie Farr has regularly served as attorney for notorious progressive globalist billionaire George Soros.
Willkie defended Soros when he was brought into a 2023 Fox News filing in its legal battle with vote counting machine Smartmatic. Fox sought to depose Mark Malloch-Brown, then-president of Soros’ flagship Open Society Foundations organization, over his ties to Smartmatic.
“I sent a query about the subpoena and the request to depose Malloch-Brown to Open Society and to the Soros lawyer cited in Fox’s filing, Casey Donnelly of Willkie Farr & Gallagher,” Reuters legal reporter Alison Frankel wrote at the time. Yes, dominant media wire service Reuters referred to Donnelly, a partner in Willkie’s litigation department, as a “Soros lawyer.”
Far more disturbing is Willkie’s efforts to enable Soros’s infamous meddling in the internal affairs of nations outside of the US.
“Willkie recently represented Soros’s Ukrainian Redevelopment Fund LP in its acquisition of a significant equity stake in Ciklum Holding Limited, a leading global IT service provider with operations in the Ukraine and throughout Europe and Asia,” the firm boasted in 2016.
The unabashed alignment with Soros is clearly laid out. Interestingly, an article about Emhoff’s soft landing in Politico never made mention of the firm’s connection with the progressive’s candy man. “Its clients include U.S. and international financial services companies, accounting firms, insurance and reinsurance companies, and media companies,” they wrote. One would think the fact that the law firm represents Soros would be — at the very least — worth a mention.
“The Ukrainian Redevelopment Fund… endeavors to make targeted investments that have the potential to promote economic and social development in Ukraine,” the Willkie corporate statement emphasized. “The principal investment adviser to URF is Soros Fund Management LLC, a private investment advisor to a number of private investment funds that are managed exclusively for Soros family clients.”
Once again, the top tier at Willkie was at Soros’ disposal.
“The Willkie deal team was led by partner Maurice Lefkort and included partners Richard Reinhold and Mark Holdsworth, as well as national partner Adrien Giraud,” the firm detailed.
“Shout-Out: Willkie Farr Puts the Brakes on $10B Suit Against Soros,” screams the headline to a 2017 article at Law.com. Soros was the target of a lawsuit accusing him of using strong-arm tactics to thwart a lucrative iron ore mine operation in Africa.
“Soros is a racketeer billionaire who acts in utter disregard of the rule of law and the rights of others,” the plaintiff filing bluntly declared,” Law.com noted. “The plaintiffs claim Soros ‘used his enormous financial clout and influence through his network of organizations to delay, damage, and destroy an investment worth at least $5 billion that plaintiffs lawfully held to mine some of the world’s most valuable deposits of iron ore located in the Simandou mountain range in the African nation of Guinea.’”
Election interference was a central facet of the suit.
“The dispute centers on what happened after Guinea’s 2010 presidential election, when the candidate Soros supported won,” the article adds. “Afterwards, Soros and the new president, Alpha Condé, held a joint press conference where they announced that all existing mining contracts in Guinea would be ‘re-examined’ and a new mining code would be enacted. Ultimately, the plaintiffs’ mining rights were revoked.”
This is the world Doug Emhoff inhabits. George Soros’ son and heir to the empire, Alex, made over 20 visits to the White House during the Biden-Harris years. Now ousted from that center of power, Emhoff has found his natural landing spot. It is indeed a machine, a system with a determined and lavishly funded agenda. And it is not going away just because Kamala Harris lost an election.