Overview

Cory Carone helps companies strategically navigate litigation to achieve their business goals.

Cory regularly partners with clients in the technology, semiconductor, agricultural, healthcare, financial, and manufacturing industries to solve their problems related to contract disputes, business torts, and employment issues. He typically helps his clients with high-value or strategically important disputes. He also works on high profile matters with widespread impact, such as advancing the public’s right to access information in the prosecution of Bryan Kohberger, defending Idaho’s legislative and congressional redistricting after the 2020 Census, and promoting the importance of truth in public discourse in multimillion-dollar defamation cases.

Before joining Stoel Rives, Cory practiced at Jones Day, served as a Deputy Attorney General for the State of Idaho, and worked for the General Counsel’s Office at the University of Michigan. He also clerked for the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.

Outside of work, Cory is a dedicated husband and father, an active parishioner at St. John’s Cathedral, and an advocate for children in need, serving as a board member for the Idaho Diaper Bank and as a fundraiser for childhood cancer research at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center following the loss of his son to leukemia.

Education

University of Michigan Law School, J.D., magna cum laude; Order of the Coif; Michigan Law Review

Michigan State University, B.A., Political Theory & Constitutional Democracy, High Honors; Phi Beta Kappa

Admissions

Idaho

Michigan

Washington

United States District Courts for the District of Idaho, Western District of Washington, and Eastern District of Michigan

United States Courts of Appeals for the Sixth and Ninth Circuits

Experience

Commercial Disputes

  • Counseled numerous clients in the agricultural, manufacturing, and technology industries following a key supplier’s delivery of defective products under multimillion- to multibillion-dollar contracts
  • Represented various private funds defrauded by portfolio companies, including tracking down hidden or unlawfully transferred assets
  • Successfully defended an aviation company following false allegations of a civil conspiracy, resulting in dismissal and a finding that the company was the prevailing party for purposes of seeking attorney’s fees
  • Negotiated complete recovery for a vineyard suffering crop damage after a neighbor over sprayed pesticides
  • Represented a manufacturing company in nationwide litigation over alleged environmental contamination from products containing PFAS chemicals
  • Represented various clients in the technology and healthcare industries related to disputes about trade secrets and other intellectual property

Employment

  • Successfully defended a manufacturing company in an OSHA investigation of alleged retaliation against a whistleblower, resulting in the claim’s dismissal
  • Defended various clients related to claims under the Idaho Wage Claim Act
  • Led numerous internal investigations of alleged workplace misconduct
  • Defended a public university in multibillion-dollar litigation related to alleged sexual misconduct by a former employee

First Amendment and Defamation

  • Successfully defended a prominent CEO following false allegations of sexual harassment, resulting in dismissal of all claims against him and a finding that the plaintiff defamed him
  • Counseled senior public officials on First Amendment and other constitutional issues related to an overnight encampment at Idaho’s Capitol
  • Represented an individual in a defamation action related to false statements that he exposed himself at a public event resulting in a nearly $1.2 million jury verdict

Appeals

  • Successfully defended an insurance company’s procurement award of a multibillion-dollar contract in an administrative appeal
  • Represented the Idaho Commission for Reapportionment and Idaho’s Secretary of State in an original action before the Idaho Supreme Court challenging the redistricting of congressional and legislative maps
  • Represented the State of Idaho and Idaho’s Secretary of State in an original action before the Idaho Supreme Court challenging laws regulating ballot initiatives and referenda
  • Represented a media coalition in an original action before the Idaho Supreme Court that recognized for the first time in Idaho the media’s right to challenge gag orders in criminal proceedings before a trial court

Insights

Insights & Presentations

  • “Idaho Chapters: Media Libel Law and Media Privacy & Related Law” (contributor), MLRC 50-State Survey, 2025
  • “Idaho Supreme Court Update: The Court Clarifies How to Add a Request for Punitive Damages,” Notice of Appeal: The Stoel Rives Appellate Law Blog, September 5, 2024
  • “Idaho Supreme Court Update: The Court’s original jurisdiction is limited, but the Legislature’s regulation of executive rulemaking is not” (co-author), Notice of Appeal: The Stoel Rives Appellate Law Blog, February 20, 2024
  • “Idaho Supreme Court Update: The Risks of Cross Appeals” (co-author), Notice of Appeal: The Stoel Rives Appellate Law Blog, March 21, 2023
  • “Idaho Supreme Court Update: Attorney’s Fees in Real Estate Litigation Under Idaho Code § 12-120(3)” (co-author), Notice of Appeal: The Stoel Rives Appellate Law Blog, March 7, 2023
  • “Idaho Supreme Court Update: Idaho’s catch-all statute of limitations revokes any common law rule that a claim cannot be time barred” (co-author), Notice of Appeal: The Stoel Rives Appellate Law Blog, March 3, 2023
  • “Idaho Supreme Court Update: A trial court’s oral ruling granting an order is effective when entered; the client is ultimately responsible for complying with a trial court’s order” (co-author), Notice of Appeal: The Stoel Rives Appellate Law Blog, March 1, 2023
  • “Idaho Supreme Court Update: Originalism in Idaho” (co-author), Notice of Appeal: The Stoel Rives Appellate Law Blog, January 19, 2023
  • “Idaho Supreme Court Update: Latvala v. Green Enterprises, Inc.” (co-author), Notice of Appeal: The Stoel Rives Appellate Law Blog, December 16, 2022
  • “Idaho Supreme Court Update: The Importance of Local Counsel” (co-author), Notice of Appeal: The Stoel Rives Appellate Law Blog, December 14, 2022
  • “Idaho Supreme Court Update: Blaskiewicz v. Spine Institute of Idaho, P.A.” (co-author), Notice of Appeal: The Stoel Rives Appellate Law Blog, November 28, 2022
  • “Idaho Supreme Court Update: Grace at Twin Falls, LLC v. Jeppesen” (co-author), Notice of Appeal: The Stoel Rives Appellate Law Blog, November 21, 2022
  • “Idaho Supreme Court Update: Sheehan v. Sun Valley Company” (co-author), Notice of Appeal: The Stoel Rives Appellate Law Blog, November 17, 2022
  • “Idaho Supreme Court Update: Gray v. Gray” (co-author), Notice of Appeal: The Stoel Rives Appellate Law Blog, November 15, 2022
  • “Idaho Supreme Court Update: Carver v. Hornish” (co-author), Notice of Appeal: The Stoel Rives Appellate Law Blog, November 11, 2022

Affiliations

Professional

  • Richard C. Fields American Inn of Court No. 130, Member

Civic

  • Boise Young Professionals, Member
  • Michigan Chapter of the Federalist Society, Former Outreach Chair
  • Idaho Diaper Bank, Board Member
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