Collin Cox, co-partner in charge of the Houston office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, is widely recognized for his successes in trying complex commercial disputes. He has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in a variety of subject areas, including technology trade-secrets cases, actions related to the Bernard L. Madoff fraud, fraudulent-transfer cases, royalty disputes, patent litigation, and other business crisis situations. In each of his representations, he prides himself on his ability to get to the heart of a complex matter, making everything as simple as possible, but not simpler (to quote Einstein), to tell a winning story to a jury or judge.
He is among a handful of trial lawyers in Houston with a “Band One” recognition from Chambers USA, in which clients have praised him as “a great, strategic lawyer,” who is “very well versed in the law and easy to work with.” Collin also is listed by Thomson Reuters as one of the “Top 100 Super Lawyers in Texas,” and has been listed as a “Super Lawyer” for more than a decade. In 2025, he twice was named AmLaw's "Litigator of the Week" – once after a historic jury verdict for Energy Transfer LP and Dakota Access Pipeline in a three-week trial in North Dakota, and again after a twelve-day trial in Phoenix that led to a $296 million verdict.
Collin maintains a close connection to Duke Law School, where he serves as Chair of the Board of Visitors. He also serves on Duke’s Adjunct Faculty, teaching a class on Hearings Practice each of the last seven years. Collin was recently recognized by Benchmark Litigation as a “Litigation Star.” He is named in The Best Lawyers in America® for Arbitration, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation and Intellectual Property Litigation, as one of the “Leading Litigators in America” by Lawdragon, and in H Magazine as a “Houston Top Lawyer.”
A fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Society of Barristers, Collin currently serves as Vice President of the Houston Bar Association, as Past President of Houston Volunteer Lawyers, and as Chairman and President of Da Camera of Houston. Collin is the past Chairman of the Buffalo Bayou Partnership and the Texas Lyceum, the pre-eminent leadership organization for Texans younger than 45.
