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Emmet FloodAmerican lawyer.
Country:
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Content:
- Early Life and Education
- Academic Career
- Legal Career
- Relationship with President Trump
- Current Affiliation
- Additional Information
Early Life and Education
Emmet Thomas Flood IV graduated from Fenwick High School in Oak Park, Illinois in 1974. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Dallas in 1978 and a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School. In 1986, he received a Master of Arts and in 1991, a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Texas at Austin.
Academic Career
Flood was a fellow at Wesleyan University's Andrew W. Mellon Foundation from 1987 to 1988, where he conducted an academic seminar on narrative in the history of philosophy.
Legal Career
Flood clerked for Judge Ralph K. Winter of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. He served as counsel to President Bill Clinton during Clinton's impeachment trial, and his firm also represented Hillary Clinton during the email controversy.
Flood represented Dick Cheney when Valerie Plame, a former CIA agent, and her husband filed a civil lawsuit against Karl Rove, Lewis Libby, Vice President Cheney, and other unnamed White House officials over the leak of Plame's covert status. He advised Bob McDonnell to "step aside" when the politician and his wife were charged and convicted in a corruption investigation. McDonnell was sentenced to two years in prison on January 6, 2015, for 11 counts of corruption and accepting $177,000 in bribes.
Flood was hired by Cameron International to defend it after the April 20, 2010 explosion of its oil rig Deepwater Horizon, which spilled approximately 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. In 2017, Flood declined an offer to work in Donald Trump's administration.
Relationship with President Trump
According to The New York Times, in March 2018, Flood met with President Trump in the Oval Office to discuss the White House's response to the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 American election. The President subsequently called the newspaper "worthless" and the story "fabricated." Trump tweeted that he had no plans to add outside counsel, as he was happy with his current attorneys: John Dowd, Ty Cobb, and Jay Sekulow.
Current Affiliation
Flood is a partner at the large corporate law firm Williams & Connolly.
Additional Information
He has served on the advisory board of Catholic Charities Legal Network, which provides pro bono legal services.
