Wayne Ian Pollock

Copo Strategies helps other attorneys and clients make those clients' cases in the Court of Public Opinion.

Working as consultants to law firms or as co-counsel to clients, we provide legal strategy and services in the form of communications strategy and services. Our advocacy supports the favorable resolution of a party's legal dispute while minimizing any reputation harm the dispute could cause.

Wayne Pollock founded Copo Strategies in 2016 after spending over a decade achieving favorable public relations and legal results for his clients.

Prior to starting Copo, Wayne was a litigation attorney at Dechert LLP, one of the largest and most prominent law firms in the world, with more than 900 attorneys worldwide, and more than $850 million in annual revenues. In his more than six years at the firm, Wayne obtained favorable outcomes for clients by analyzing and presenting complex legal and factual issues. While at the firm, Wayne worked on high-stakes, high-profile matters that were often reported on by local, national, and international media outlets. For example, Wayne was on the Dechert team that represented the ten former independent directors of Lehman Brothers in the wave of investigations and litigation triggered by Lehman's September 2008 collapse. He was also on the team that represents Takata, a leading automotive parts manufacturer, in litigation and regulatory investigations related to the company's recall of tens of millions of potentially defective airbags. And, Wayne was on the team that represented the Marshall family in litigation against Vickie Lynn Marshall (a.k.a. Anna Nicole Smith). 

Before law school, Wayne practiced public relations at The Star Group, a one-time Advertising Age "Top 100" marketing communications firm. In his four years at the firm, Wayne developed and executed public relations and marketing initiatives on behalf of regional, national, and international clients. While at Star, Wayne secured dozens of placements for clients in national and regional media outlets including USA Today and The Wall Street Journal, regional television network affiliates, and national trade media outlets by cultivating relationships with journalists.

​Wayne graduated magna cum laude in 2002 from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, where he majored in public relations. Wayne graduated in 2009 from Georgetown University Law Center, where he was Senior Special Projects Editor for The Georgetown Law Journal.

Wayne is admitted to practice law in all state courts in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He is also admitted to practice in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.

​Wayne resides in Center City Philadelphia. If you keep an eye out, you might find him running on one of Philadelphia's numerous running trails, desperately trying to keep Father Time away from his knees.