Cody Gray

Cody Gray represents public and private companies, non-profits, and individuals in complex commercial litigation and white-collar criminal matters.  He is experienced with every phase of the litigation process and adept at developing creative factual and legal strategies to help his clients achieve their goals as efficiently as possible.

Mr. Gray has litigated a wide variety of high-stakes civil disputes in state and federal courts and in arbitration.  His clients include leading businesses in the technology, healthcare, and professional services industries.  Mr. Gray’s recent experience includes representing a software provider in a breach of contract and privacy-related matter; a chip design company in copyright and patent infringement litigation; and a marketing platform in a putative class action involving right of publicity and unfair competition law claims.

In his criminal practice, Mr. Gray represents corporations and individuals in internal and government investigations and trials.  His expertise spans every phase of the criminal process, from investigation, indictment, bail, and discovery, to trial, sentencing, and appeal.  Mr. Gray’s criminal matters have involved an array of substantive offenses, including conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud, securities fraud, honest services fraud, bank fraud, tax fraud, tax evasion, insider trading, bribery, and money laundering.  Mr. Gray also regularly represents indigent clients charged with drug and other alleged offenses in matters referred to the firm by the Northern District of California’s Criminal Justice Act panel.  His recent experience includes defending a businessman charged with conspiracy, making false statements, and bank fraud; a real estate developer charged with bribing a politician; a corporation and its current and former employees in a prosecution involving claims of honest services fraud and money laundering; and a senior executive in a federal insider trading investigation.

Mr. Gray maintains an active pro bono practice centered on civil rights and voting-related matters.  He recently represented an inmate alleging an Eighth Amendment claim against a yard gunner at San Quentin State Prison.  Mr. Gray also assisted a successful effort to evacuate a family of six from Kabul, Afghanistan, and has drafted several effective amicus briefs in voting rights cases.

Prior to joining Keker, Van Nest & Peters, Mr. Gray served as a law clerk to Judge Richard Seeborg of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, and Judge Milan D. Smith, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. 

Mr. Gray earned his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School, his Ph.D. and M.A. in Politics from Princeton University, and his B.A. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.  During law school, he interned at the U.S. Department of Justice in the Civil Rights Division’s Voting Section.  Prior to law school, Mr. Gray was an aide to U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein on the Senate Judiciary Committee and spent a summer working on the Native American Affairs Policy Team at the White House Domestic Policy Council.