Mark Vandenberg, an associate in the Consumer Protection practice, focuses on litigating class actions on behalf of consumers who have been misled, deceived, or harmed by large corporations.
Prior to joining Cohen Milstein, Mark was a staff attorney at the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
During law school, Mark was on the NYU Law Moot Court Board as a Competitions Advocacy editor and externed with the Queens Legal Aid Society’s eviction defense team. He interned twice at the New York State Attorney General’s Office, first in the Office of Federal Initiatives and then in the Consumer Frauds and Protection Bureau. He also worked as a summer fellow at the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. Prior to law school, Mark was a civil rights paralegal with a firm in Washington, D.C.
- New York
- New York University School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2022
- Harvard University, B.A., Social Studies, cum laude, 2016
Current Cases
Baus, et al. v. Ford Motor Company
Baus, et al. v. Ford Motor Company (E.D. Mich.): Cohen Milstein represents plaintiffs who purchased or leased vehicles manufactured by Ford Motor Company in a consolidated breach of warranty and deceptive and fraudulent business practices class action against Ford Motor Company. Plaintiffs bring their claims under the Magnuson Moss Warranty Act and the consumer fraud statutes of their respective states, related to Ford’s manufacture and sale of defective Ford F-150 pickup trucks, Model Years 2018-2020 equipped with 5.0L engines.
Belyea, et al. v. GreenSky, Inc., et al.
Belyea, et al. v. GreenSky, Inc., et al. (N.D. Cal.): Cohen Milstein, as Co-Lead Counsel, is reparenting consumers in this certified false advertising and unfair business practices class action, alleging that GreenSky, a financial technology company, operates in California as an unlicensed and unregistered credit services organization, finance lender, and broker in violation of California Financing Law the Credit Services Act of 1984, and other federal and state laws.
MOVEit Data Breach Litigation
In re: Moveit Customer Data Security Breach Litigation (D. Mass.): Cohen Milstein is one of five court-appointed co-lead counsel overseeing this multidistrict litigation addressing the massive May 2023 data breach involving Progress Software Corp.’s file-sharing software, MOVEit Transfer, which impacted more than 2,500 organizations, including hospitals, banks, businesses, governments, pension funds, universities, among others, and more than 67 million individuals worldwide.
Siemens’ Arc Fault Circuit Interrupters (AFCI) Litigation
Kevin Brnich Electric LLC, et al. v. Siemens Industry, Inc. (N.D. Ga.): Cohen Milstein is Co-Lead Counsel in this false advertising and product defect consumer protection class action, alleging that Siemens’ AFCI circuit breakers are defective and Siemens misrepresents and omits information about the quality of its AFCIs.