Top Rated Business Litigation Attorney in Austin, TX

Bill Cobb has been providing clients with strategic legal and regulatory counsel for more than 20 years.  He has firsthand experience challenging and enforcing government regulations, having represented both the regulator and the regulated.  According to Chambers USA, this gives him a “unique perspective on state regulation, which is respected by all regulating entities in Texas.” 

Bill has practiced at two of Texas’s most prestigious law firms, Vinson & Elkins and Jackson Walker, but honed his advocacy skills in-house as Senior Regulatory Counsel for a telecommunications company and in senior positions at the Office of the Texas Attorney General.  He currently maintains a thriving regulatory compliance and litigation practice with the law firm of Cobb & Counsel.

Serving as Special Assistant and Senior Counsel to Attorney General Greg Abbott, Bill lead the vanguard challenging EPA’s greenhouse gas regulatory regime, and served as lead trial counsel for the State of Texas in the historic 26-state constitutional challenge to the Affordable Care Act (a/k/a ObamaCare).  When appointing Bill as Deputy Attorney General for Civil Litigation, Abbott praised him as an “expert legal tactician and successful litigator.”  As Deputy Attorney General, Bill managed over 300 attorneys, primarily directing the investigations and enforcement actions conducted by the Civil Medicaid Fraud, Consumer Protection, Antitrust, and Environmental Protection Divisions.  

This experience, in conjunction with Bill’s work as in-house counsel, has proven invaluable to his private practice clients in responding to government investigations, navigating regulations, and obtaining licenses and permits.  It also informs his crafting of legislative solutions that survive agency implementation and judicial review.