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Overview
Calvin Cobb has more than 30 years of experience counseling high net worth individuals and families on estate and tax planning, trust and estate administration and litigation, charitable planning and business succession strategies. He advises owners of closely held businesses on estate and tax considerations, with a focus on complex estate planning structures, including gifts and sales of partnership interests to perpetual defective grantor trusts in exchange for private annuities or notes.
In addition, Calvin has extensive experience as trial counsel in trust and estate disputes and has served multiple times as an expert witness, including in the notable case Jacob v. Davis, 182 Md. App. 433, 738 A.2d 904 (1999), cert. denied, 357 Md. 482 (2000).
Calvin regularly presents accredited continuing legal education (CLE) programs to members of the DC Bar in all 46 states requiring CLE, covering topics such as estate planning for a senior surviving spouse with a taxable estate contemplating remarriage and strategies for preventing and litigating will contests in DC, Maryland and Virginia.
Education
- Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., Lead Articles Editor, The Tax Lawyer
- Princeton University, A.B.
Court Admissions
- All DC Courts
- All Maryland Courts
- U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
Bar Admissions
- District of Columbia
- Maryland
- Virginia
Recognition
- Named "Best Lawyer" in Trusts & Estates (2008-2025) and Trust & Estate Litigation (2011-2025) by The Best Lawyers in America
- Named to Virginia Business’ “Legal Elite” list in the Taxes/Estates/Trusts category (2023)
- Selected to Virginia Super Lawyers for Estate Planning & Probate (2007-2008, 2013-2015 and 2017)
- Listed in Washingtonian’s Best Financial Advisors and Top Estate Attorneys (1995-2017)
- Highest "AV Preeminent (5 out of 5)" Professional Rating, Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory
Affiliations
- Founding Member, The Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School Foundation, Inc.
- Founding Member, Board of Directors, The Friends of Westbrook School Foundation, Inc.
- Member, Estates, Trusts and Probate Law, DC Bar
- Member, Estate & Trust Law Section, Maryland State Bar Association
- Member, Trusts & Estates Law Section, California State Bar Association
- Former Chairman, Board of Trustees, Clients' Security Trust Fund, DC Bar
- Former Member, Steering Committee, Estates, Trusts and Probate Law Section, DC Bar
- Former Member, Continuing Legal Education Committee, DC Bar
- Member, Lawyer’s Club of Washington
- Member, The Barristers