Linda B. Popejoy is a counsel in the firm's litigation group. Resident in the DC office, Linda focuses her practice primarily on serving as national counsel for multinational corporations in toxic tort and product and premises liability matters.
For more than a decade, Linda has represented clients across industries ranging from technology and defense to real estate and chemical in a variety of complex commercial litigation matters. She has a broad-based background in business disputes and bet-the-company litigation.
Linda's clients have included a major telecommunications firm, a global multimedia company and a major beer manufacturer. She has successfully assisted clients with disputes involving trademarks, government contracts, telecommunications and real estate issues. Linda's courtroom experience includes second-chairing a $15 million property dispute case as well as acting as first-chair in a two-day evidentiary hearing in which she successfully opposed a motion for preliminary injunction.
Since joining Crowell & Moring in 2003, Linda has focused her practice on product liability and toxic tort matters for two Fortune 100 multinational companies. Prior to joining C&M, Linda worked on complex litigation matters for Foley Hoag LLP and Dorsey & Whitney LLP. Prior to that, she represented whistleblowers in suits brought under the federal False Claims Act at Phillips & Cohen in Los Angeles and Washington, DC.
After earning her BS, with honors, in 1989 from Cornell University's New York School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Linda graduated cum laude in 1992 from Harvard Law School, where she served as an articles editor for the Women's Law Journal. After graduating from law school, Linda served as a law clerk for the Hon. Alicemarie H. Stotler in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
A member of the District of Columbia and Maryland bars, Linda is admitted to practice before numerous federal trial and appellate courts.