After graduating from Louisiana State University in 2002, Cody attended Loyola University New Orleans School of Law where he served on the board of the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association before graduating in 2013. His focus on comparative constitutional law led to studies at Universidad de Costa Rica in Jan Jose, Costa Rica, and Lomonosov Moscow State University in Moscow, Russia, earning him a Certificate in International Legal Studies. His practice now contains a variety of legal matters including: successions and estates, personal injury, contract litigation, condominium disputes, and criminal defense. Cody was recently chosen by his peers as Top Lawyer in a 2019 poll conducted for New Orleans Magazine in the field of Criminal Law.