Cody M. Poplin

Cody M. Poplin is a litigation associate in Gibson Dunn’s Washington, D.C. office. He represents corporate, institutional, and individual clients in a variety of high-profile litigation and enforcement matters at the investigatory, trial, and appellate levels.

Cody has significant experience managing sophisticated clients through all stages of legal disputes: from advice regarding business strategy surrounding legal questions to trial and appeal.  He helps clients tackle complicated statutory and constitutional questions across a wide range of subject matter and in all stages of litigation, from crafting potential challenges to new regulations and legislation to briefing appeals before the U.S. Supreme Court.  In addition, Cody supports clients through regulatory, criminal, and internal investigations. He has broad experience in assessing civil and criminal enforcement risks and in advocating before the U.S. Department of Justice and other federal and state regulators.

Cody is a graduate of Yale Law School, where he was an Executive Editor of the Yale Law Journal, a teaching fellow in constitutional law, and the student director of the law school’s clinical program with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and with highest distinction from the University of North Carolina with degrees in Political Science and Peace, War, and Defense, and was awarded the Russell S. Cowell, Jr. prize for achieving the most distinguished academic record in his department.

Prior to law school, Cody completed a Luce Fellowship in India and a Scoville Fellowship in Washington, D.C. and worked as an analyst at the Brookings Institution. He has published extensively on U.S. national security law and policy.

Cody joined Gibson Dunn after serving as a law clerk to Judge Raymond W. Gruender of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and Judge Dabney L. Friedrich of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.  

Cody is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia and the State of New York.

Capabilities

• Litigation
• Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice
• Appellate and Constitutional Law
• Artificial Intelligence
• Crisis Management
• International Trade
• Media, Entertainment, and Technology
• National Security
• Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Data Innovation
• Public Policy
• Tech and Innovation
• Technology Litigation
• Transnational Litigation
• White Collar Defense and Investigations

Credentials

Education:

• Yale University - 2019 Juris Doctor
• University of North Carolina - 2012 Bachelor of Arts

Admissions:

• District of Columbia Bar
• New York Bar

Clerkships:

• USDC, District of Columbia, Hon. Dabney Friedrich, 2020 - 2021
• US Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Hon. Raymond Gruender, 2019 - 2020