Carol C. Villegas and Michael P. Canty on Trial-Ready Securities and Data Privacy

In this episode of Raising the Bar with RebuttalPR, host Ray DeLorenzi sits down with Carol C. Villegas and Michael P. Canty, Partners at Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP.

Carol shares her path from big law to the DA’s office in Staten Island before finding her way to plaintiff-side securities work. Michael recounts his early days as a Nassau County prosecutor, his years at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn, and why his trial-first mindset still drives his approach to securities and privacy cases today.

Together, they explain why courtroom experience matters in civil litigation, how Labaton carefully vets fraud cases rather than chasing every stock drop, and why trial readiness changes the defense calculus. The conversation turns to their recent California jury verdict against Meta, where they exposed how sensitive reproductive health data from the Flow Health app was quietly transmitted through Meta’s software development kit.

Carol and Michael break down how the case was built, why it was the first of its kind under California’s wiretapping statute, and what the verdict means for consumers in the age of AI and black-box algorithms.

Learn more about Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP: https://www.labaton.com/