Joseph N. Cotilletta

Joseph Cotilletta is a Partner in the New York office of Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP, where he prosecutes complex securities fraud cases on behalf of institutional and individual investors.  He also represents investors in corporate governance and transactional matters, including class action and derivative litigation.

Joe has repeatedly been recognized as a "Top 40 Under 40" civil trial lawyer by The National Trial Lawyers.  He has also been recognized as a Rising Star of the Plaintiffs Bar by The National Law Journal's "Elite Trial Lawyers" and as a Next Generation Lawyer by Lawdragon.

In recent years, Joe has achieved extraordinary results for investors.  He was a senior member of the litigation team that achieved a $200 million recovery in Boston Retirement Systems v. Uber Technologies, Inc.— a case that alleged Uber’s $8.1 billion IPO offering documents misrepresented the company’s business model, growth strategy, passenger safety efforts, and financial condition.  The settlement was the fourth largest securities class action settlement in 2024.

Additionally, Joe was part of the team that secured a $1 billion settlement in In re Dell Technologies Inc. Class V Stockholders Litigation.  The settlement currently stands as the largest shareholder settlement ever in any state court in America and the 17th largest shareholder settlement of all time in federal and state court.

Before joining Labaton Keller Sucharow, Joe was a senior associate at a prominent national law firm, where he gained substantial trial and litigation experience pursuing high-value cases in various jurisdictions throughout the United States.  Joe helped obtain multi-million-dollar recoveries from some of the largest companies in the world and set legal precedent in multiple areas of the law.  Since the start of his legal career, Joe has dedicated himself to becoming a skilled advocate, sharpening his litigation expertise while trying numerous cases as first or second chair and taking and defending hundreds of depositions.

Joe is a member of the Commercial and Federal Litigation Section as well as the Securities Litigation Committee of the New York State Bar Association.

Joe earned his Juris Doctor from Penn State Law, where he was selected to join the Order of Barristers and served as an Articles Editor for the Penn State International Law Review and as an extern for the Honorable Kim R. Gibson of the Western District of Pennsylvania.  He was selected for publication and served on the executive board for the school’s Moot Court.  Joe received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Bryant University, where he was captain of the Men’s Lacrosse team that advanced to the program’s first semi-finals playoff appearance.

He is conversant in Italian.