Douglas Emhoff, the husband of US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, will leave his job at one of the country’s largest law firms by January to focus on supporting the incoming Biden administration, a campaign representative said on Tuesday.

Emhoff (above, with wife Kamala Harris) took a leave of absence from the law firm, DLA Piper, in August, after now President-elect Joe Biden, a Democrat, named Harris as his running mate. Biden, who faced off against President Donald Trump on Nov 3, captured the presidency last Saturday...