Gregory Jacob
Legal counsel to former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gregory Jacob is an American lawyer who was legal counsel to U.S. Vice President Mike Pence during the administration of Donald Trump. He is currently a partner in the Washington office of the law firm, O'Melveny & Myers, specializing in ERISA matters.[1]
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Gregory Jacob | |
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Counsel to the Vice President | |
In office March 2020 ā January 2021 | |
Vice President | Mike Pence |
Preceded by | Matthew E. Morgan |
Succeeded by | Josh Hsu |
Personal details | |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Amherst College University of Chicago |
Occupation | Lawyer |
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Upon learning of attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election, Jacob worked to refute a fringe theory pushed in the Eastman memos by Trump attorney John Eastman that the vice president held unilateral authority to reject States' electors.[2]