TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Barry Kolar on Feb 19, 2021

Legendary Georgia attorney Bobby Lee Cook died today at his Lookout Mountain home. He was 94. In his storied career, Cook represented moonshiners, money launderers, bootleggers and bank fraud schemers, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reports. The 1980s television show “Matlock,” starring Andy Griffith, was reportedly based on Cook’s practice, and his defense of Savannah socialite Jim Williams was the inspiration for the true-crime classic “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.” He was a graduate of Vanderbilt University Law School.