Golf’s Pebble Beach Co. Taps Ex-Trump DOJ Official as Top Lawyer

Feb. 2, 2024, 7:50 PM UTC

Pebble Beach Co., owner of some of the world’s finest golf courses, two of which are hosting the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am this weekend, has hired high-profile former Justice Department lawyer Patrick Hovakimian as its chief legal officer.

The move comes three years after he left public service to join Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman as a partner in Washington. Hovakimian put a decade of work inside the Beltway behind him for a job near the fairway in Pebble Beach, Calif., a coastal community about a two-hour drive south of San Francisco.

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