Jerry W. Cox

Jerry W. Cox helps clients deal with government. His multi-faceted legal and public affairs services encompass every stage of government decision-making from congressional/regulatory affairs to strategy development and civil/appellate litigation. Representative clients include technology developers, manufacturers of transportation safety and security equipment, defense and homeland security contractors, transportation service providers and major insurance organizations.

Mr. Cox manages clients’ participation in various types of government investigations, regulatory enforcement proceedings, product safety recalls and related litigation. He also facilitates the “migration” of military and law enforcement technology to public safety applications.

Mr. Cox deals regularly with the Departments of Homeland Security and Transportation (particularly the Federal Aviation and Hazardous Materials Safety agencies) and various independent agencies and congressional committees with jurisdiction over commerce and trade.

Former U.S. Senator and United Nations Ambassador John C. Danforth appointed Mr. Cox his Legislative Counsel. Danforth chaired the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation and the subcommittees on International Trade and federal procurement policy. Mr. Cox was responsible for defense, government procurement and intelligence matters and the entire range of technology, telecommunications and transportation issues pending in the Commerce Committee. Mr. Cox later co-authored the U.S. Supreme Court brief for motor vehicle insurers when they won a unanimous decision reinstating the safety standard requiring airbags in automobiles.

A long-time advisor to several influential nonprofit organizations, Mr. Cox is Counsel to the Dangerous Goods Advisory Council and Managing Director of the Forerunner Foundation, a Washington “think tank.” His commentaries on a wide range of issues have appeared in several major publications.

An honors graduate of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, Mr. Cox received a law degree from the University of Virginia, where he was Associate Editor of the Virginia Law Weekly and a member of the Moot Court Board.

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