Corey D. Laplante

Corey Laplante is a trial lawyer who represents founders, executives, boards, venture capital firms, and high-growth companies in their most consequential disputes. He has broad experience representing clients in matters involving trade secrets and employee mobility, business torts, corporate control, fiduciary duties, unfair competition, antitrust, and products liability.

Corey brings a distinctive perspective to his practice, drawing on experience both as outside counsel and as an operating executive. Before returning to private practice, Corey served as General Counsel—and ultimately President, Co-Chief Executive Officer, and Board Director — of a venture-backed artificial intelligence company. In those roles, he led legal and commercial strategy through multiple financing rounds, global distribution partnerships, product launches, and other critical phases of growth. Corey’s executive experience informs his practical, business-oriented approach to litigation and strategic counseling.

Corey’s recent representations include serving as lead plaintiff's counsel for a Series D AI data infrastructure company in a trade secrets dispute involving methods for reinforcement learning. He and his team obtained a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction in the Northern District of California, securing settlement shortly thereafter. He also served as lead counsel for a prominent musician and founder of a venture-backed audio technology company, securing a favorable resolution of a complex founder dispute that threatened a critical financing round.

Corey was also a member of the trial team representing Bayer in three consecutive multidistrict litigation bellwether trials involving Xarelto in the Eastern District of Louisiana and Southern District of Mississippi, all of which resulted in complete defense verdicts. He also served on the trial team representing the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in antitrust litigation in the Northern District of California challenging NCAA compensation rules under the Sherman Act.

Early in his career, Corey clerked for the Honorable John J. Tuchi of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona.

Before law school, Corey was a Fulbright Scholar in Lima, Peru. Reuters, The New York Times, and several Peruvian publications covered the key findings of his research. He also worked for the Mayor of Washington, DC.