Ty Cobb (attorney)

Ty Cobb
Born	1951 (age 65–66) Kansas, U.S.
Education	Harvard University (BA) Georgetown University (JD)

Ty Cobb (born 1951) is an American lawyer. He was a partner at Hogan Lovells in Washington, D.C. until July 2017, when he joined the Trump administration legal team.

Cobb is the son of Grover C. Cobb, a Kansas radio station owner who was senior executive vice president of the National Association of Broadcasters (which named one of their prestigious awards for him). The senior Cobb was vice-president/general manager of KVGB (AM)/FM in Great Bend, and had a key role in forming the Kansas Association of Broadcasters. Ty Cobb is reportedly a distant relative of Hall of Fame baseball player Ty Cobb. Cobb spent his childhood in rural Kansas.

Cobb received his B.A. degree from Harvard University and his J.D. degree from Georgetown Law School.

Cobb was a law clerk for a federal judge, and then worked in the U.S. Attorney's office in Baltimore, serving as chief of the criminal section and head of the region's drug enforcement and organized crime task force. In 1986, after he had been passed over for the U.S. Attorney position in favor of Breckinridge L. Willcox, he joined the Baltimore law firm Miles and Stockbridge. Two years later, he joined Hogan & Hartson, which became Hogan Lovells.

Cobb served as special trial counsel during an independent investigation of the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the 1990s.

Cobb successfully defended Hudson Foods against allegations that its executives lied to investigators after a recall of beef tainted with E. coli. The executives were acquitted on all charges. He represented Democratic fundraiser John Huang against campaign finance charges. Huang pleaded guilty in 1999. Other high-profile clients have included Eli Segal, Mary McCarthy, AIG, Office Depot, the House of Saud, IBM, and Medtronic.

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