Corban S. Rhodes
Corban works at the forefront of law and technology, advocating for consumers and investors in high-stakes data privacy and securities fraud class actions.
Corban works at the forefront of law and technology, advocating for consumers and investors in high-stakes data privacy and securities fraud class actions.
Corban Rhodes is a seasoned litigator who has recovered more than a billion dollars for consumers and investors in some of the country’s largest and most historic cybersecurity, data privacy and securities fraud cases. Working at the intersection of law and technology, Corban focuses on cases that involve the intentional misuse or misappropriation of consumer data and data breaches.
As co-lead plaintiffs’ counsel in the Facebook Biometric Information Privacy Litigation matter, Corban helped secure a landmark $650 million settlement, in one of the first cases asserting consumers’ biometric privacy rights under Illinois law. He has litigated cases of negligence or malfeasance leading to data breaches, including a class action against Yahoo for one of the largest known data breaches in history that affected nearly 3 billion consumers. Continuing his groundbreaking work at this critical moment for privacy rights and the law, he currently represents consumers in pivotal web browser privacy cases, including the Calhoun v. Google and Google RTB Consumer Privacy Litigation matters.
Corban also prosecutes complex securities fraud cases on behalf of institutional investors, representing both large public pension funds and individual investors. He successfully resolved dozens of cases against some of the largest Wall Street banks in the wake of the mortgage-backed securities financial crisis. His work in securities fraud cases has held companies accountable to investors for fraud and market manipulation in the banking, pharmaceutical, and manufacturing sectors in some of the largest securities class actions of the last decade.
Corban has been recognized by Law360 as a Rising Star and one of five attorneys on its Top Attorneys Under 40 for Consumer Protection. He was also named by Benchmark Litigation as a Future Star and on its New York 40 Under 40 list and by Super Lawyers as a New York Rising Star, and he received a Thurgood Marshall Award for his pro bono representation of a death row inmate appealing from capital punishment. He is an active member of the Sedona Conference Working Group 11 on Data Security and Privacy Liability, and sits on the Law360 Cybersecurity & Privacy Editorial Board. He is a regular speaker and writer on issues related to protecting the rights of the individual against corporate malfeasance.