Ty Cobb (born 1950) is an American lawyer.He was an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland in 1981–86. He has been a partner at Hogan Lovells in Washington, D.C. From July 2017 until May 2018 he was a member of 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). Cobb's father was vice-president and general manager of KVGB (AM)/FM in Great Bend,and had a key role in forming the Kansas Association of Broadcasters.
Cobb reportedly is a distant relative of the Hall of Fame baseball player bearing the same name.
Cobb spent his childhood in Great Bend, Kansas.
Cobb received his A.B. from Harvard University and his J.D. from Georgetown Law School. While at Harvard, Cobb became close friends with Senator Al Franken.
Career
Cobb served as a law clerk for a federal judge, then Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland in 1981-86 based in Baltimore as chief of the criminal section and head of the region's drug enforcement and organized crime task force. In 1986, 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.
Cobb is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.
“While at Harvard, Cobb became close friends with Senator Al Franken.”
That speaks volumes. Part of Trump’s problem is that he’s wowed by Ivy Leaguers. I remember around the time of the Kavanaugh nomination, word leaked out that Trump was telling staffers that he wanted a “superstar” from Harvard or Yale. It’s an ongoing pattern. Trump meets a Chris Wray out of Andover and Yale and he’s his kinda guy. He needs to get through his skull that the Ivy League establishment types are not his friends and in fact hate him.