By Carol D. Leonnig @ WashingtonPost.com, July 14, 7:24 pm

President Trump has chosen a new lawyer to join the White House and take the lead on issues related to ongoing investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 election, according to two people familiar with the decision.

Ty Cobb, a former prosecutor and defense lawyer at Hogan Lovells, will seek to play the role of crisis manager and disciplinarian in a White House that has struggled to deal with continuing questions about the federal and congressional probes that have dominated the early months of Trump’s presidency [.....]

Trump will continue to be personally represented by his longtime New York-based lawyer Marc E. Kasowitz.

Meanwhile, Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, has decided that veteran Washington defense lawyer Abbe Lowell will take the lead in representing him in the Russia-related inquiries being conducted by Mueller and congressional committees, according to a statement and three people briefed on the decision. Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter, had originally hired well-known Washington criminal-defense lawyer Jamie Gorelick to represent them on matters related to their government service, but Kushner recently added Lowell to the team to avoid the potential conflict created because Gorelick and Mueller both worked at the law firm WilmerHale. Gorelick will continue to represent Kushner and Ivanka Trump.

“Of course I am still part of Jared Kushner’s legal team,” Gorelick said [.....]