Corey is a nationally recognized trial attorney and advocate for children’s rights and environmental justice. He represents individuals who have been catastrophically injured, with a particular focus on children harmed by lead poisoning and survivors of sexual abuse. Over the course of his career, Corey has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for his clients through verdicts and settlements and has earned a national reputation for his work in complex, high-impact litigation.

Corey regularly serves as first-chair/lead trial counsel in complex personal injury cases. In addition to his trial work, he has written, argued, and won significant legal rulings in courts across the United States, helping shape the law while prosecuting his clients’ cases.

National Leadership in Lead Poisoning Litigation

Corey is widely regarded as an innovator and leader in national lead poisoning litigation. He currently represents more than 4,000 children in Flint, Michigan, and nearly 3,000 children in Jackson, Mississippi, each on an individual, case-by-case basis, who were poisoned as a result of systemic failures by government entities and professional engineers.

In connection with the Flint Water Crisis, Corey was appointed Lead Counsel on November 15, 2016, for all plaintiffs pursuing personal injury and property damage claims in the Circuit Court of Genesee County. On July 27, 2017, he was also appointed Liaison Counsel in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan for all individual federal cases arising from the crisis.

On August 12, 2020, Corey helped secure a historic $600 million settlement with the State of Michigan—the largest settlement ever paid by the State. As an architect of the settlement, Corey successfully advocated for the majority of funds to be directed to the most vulnerable victims, particularly children aged six and younger, and fought to ensure that children were compensated individually rather than through a class action. The settlement marked a watershed moment for Flint’s children and underscored Corey’s commitment to meaningful accountability.

Corey has also brought landmark litigation against public housing authorities for widespread failures to protect children from lead-based paint exposure. In September 2017, he filed suit in federal court against New York City, the New York City Housing Authority, and senior city officials, alleging systemic failures to inspect and remediate lead hazards in more than 178,000 public housing apartments, potentially exposing hundreds of thousands of residents—many of them children—to dangerous conditions.

Currently, Corey is leading a federal lawsuit on behalf of nearly 3,000 children in Jackson, Mississippi, alleging that city and state officials ignored years of warnings about water corrosion and lead contamination, resulting in prolonged exposure to unsafe drinking water.

Advocacy for Survivors of Sexual Abuse

In addition to his environmental justice work, Corey is a dedicated advocate for survivors of sexual abuse. He has handled thousands of cases nationwide on behalf of individuals who were abused as children in juvenile detention facilities, as well as individuals sexually abused by prison staff while incarcerated.

In February 2019, Corey filed a federal lawsuit in the Southern District of New York on behalf of survivors abused by Dr. Reginald Archibald during his decades-long tenure as a pediatric endocrinologist at Rockefeller University Hospital. The case involved allegations of abuse affecting thousands of patients and underscored Corey’s commitment to holding powerful institutions accountable.

Background and Personal Commitment

Prior to joining LK, Corey practiced extensively in complex negligence, civil rights, product liability, and sexual abuse litigation throughout Georgia and the Southeastern United States, with a longstanding focus on cases involving children.

Corey is a frequent speaker at seminars and conferences across the country and has testified before the New York City Council on issues related to lead poisoning and public housing.

He spent half his life in New York and half in Georgia, growing up in Mount Sinai, New York, and earning both his undergraduate degree in history and his Juris Doctor from the University of Georgia. After practicing law in Atlanta for twelve years, Corey returned to New York in 2014, where he continues to fight for individuals—especially children—who lack an adequate voice.

Following high school, Corey traveled the world for a year, including visits to concentration camps throughout Europe. The stories of children who perished during the Holocaust left a lasting impact on him and continue to shape both his personal values and his legal practice.

Despite his deep love for New York City and Brooklyn in particular, Corey will always be a Georgia Bulldog, proudly celebrating the Dawgs’ back-to-back national championships in 2021 and 2022—and confident that many more are still to come.