Donald Trump, who has long surrounded himself with lawyers, tapped one as his running mate on Friday, announcing Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his choice for vice president. He also selected two prominent lawyers with Big Law perches to speak at the Republican National Convention next week in Cleveland: Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who chairs the cybersecurity, privacy and crisis management practice at Greenberg Traurig, and Debevoise & Plimpton of counsel Michael Mukasey, who was attorney general in the George W. Bush administration, are both on the list of Trump speakers released by his campaign this week.
While Pence once practiced corporate law at the Indianapolis firm now known as Doninger Tuohy & Bailey, he apparently didn’t enjoy his time in law school. “It was a bad experience. I wouldn’t wish it on a dog I didn’t like,” he told the Indianapolis Business Journal back in 1994. (That article was unearthed by The Wall Street Journal.)
