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The White House announced Tuesday that Flood will replace Ty Cobb in the White House Counsel's Office, serving as a point person for the White House's response to special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
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Kelly R. Welsh '70, general counsel of the U.S. Department of Commerce, and Emmet T. Flood '74, an attorney in Washington D.C., and former deputy and assistant special counsel to the President, were inducted into Fenwick's Hall of Fame.
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Mr. and Mrs. Emmet T. Flood IV '74
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Flood graduated magna cum laude in 1978 from the University of Dallas with a bachelor of arts, according to the bio. He went on to get a Master of Arts and a doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin and to pursue postdoctoral studies in humanities at Wesleyan University in the 1980s. In 1991, Flood got his J.D. from Yale Law School.
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Wesleyan University Center for Humanities. Emmet Flood, Mellon Fellow: Some Uses of Narrative in the History of Philosophy: Synoptic Judgment and Philosophical Plot. Russell House. Apr. 18, 1988. Colloquium. Center Colloquium Room. Apr. 26, 1988.
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Emmet Flood, a Republican who served on former President Clinton's legal team during Clinton's impeachment proceedings, left his Washington law firm last summer to represent Vice President Dick Cheney in the CIA leak case. More recently, Flood has resisted Congress' efforts to obtain White House e-mails that were sent through the Republican Party's e-mail system. He previously clerked for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
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The President has named Emmet Flood to be Deputy Assistant to the President and Special Counsel to the President. Mr. Flood recently was a Partner at Williams & Connolly, LLP. Prior to this, he served as a Law Clerk to Associate Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States. Earlier in his career, he served as Law Clerk for Judge Ralph K. Winter, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Mr. Flood received his bachelor's degree from the University of Dallas and his JD from Yale Law School. He received his master's degree and PhD from the University of Texas at Austin.
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Flood, now an attorney with Williams & Connolly, defended former Vice President Dick Cheney in a civil suit from former CIA officer Valerie Plame.
- ↑ Nolan, Jim; Meola, Olympia (July 4, 2013). "Washington lawyer Flood counsels McDonnell on probes". Richmond Times-Dispatch .
High-powered Washington lawyer Emmet T. Flood was in Richmond at the Executive Mansion Tuesday to speak with McDonnell, administration officials and others as the governor attempts to navigate the legal and political waters that have engulfed the last year of his term and threaten to swamp his legacy.
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Smaller players also have shored up their defenses: Cameron International, the Houston firm that built Deepwater Horizon's failed blowout preventer, has retained Emmet T. Flood of Williams & Connolly, a former White House special counsel during the Bush administration who represented Cheney in the CIA leak case.
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- ↑ Lee, Mary. "Emmet Flood temporarily takes McGahn's place as White House counsel". Politico .
Emmet Flood has been appointed Assistant to the President and Counsel to the President, effective this morning," White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement. "Mr. Flood will serve in the role until Pat Cipollone comes on board as Counsel to the President, at which time Mr. Flood will return to being Special Counsel to the President.
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