United States securities and exchange commission logo November 10, 2020 Charles Robb Chief Financial Officer and Secretary CORCEPT THERAPEUTICS INC 149 Commonwealth Drive Menlo Park, CA 94025 Re: CORCEPT THERAPEUTICS INC Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2019 Filed February 24, 2020 Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2020 Filed November 3, 2020 File No. 000-50679 Dear Mr. Robb: We have limited our review of your filings to the financial statements and related disclosures and have the following comment. In our comment we may ask you to provide us with information so we may better understand your disclosure. Please respond to this comment within ten business days by providing the requested information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond. If you do not believe our comment applies to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in your response. After reviewing your response to this comment, we may have additional comments. Form 10-Q filed November 3, 2020 Item 4. Controls and Procedures, page 20 1. We note your statement that your disclosure controls and procedures provide a reasonable level of assurance that the information required to be disclosed in your Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q was communicated to management, so as to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. In future Form 10-Q filings please revise to state clearly, if true, that your disclosure controls and procedures are designed to provide reasonable assurance of achieving their objectives and that your principal executive and principal financial officer concluded that your disclosure controls and procedures are effective at the reasonable assurance level. In the alternative, you may remove the reference to the level of assurance provided by your disclosure controls and procedures. Charles Robb CORCEPT THERAPEUTICS INC November 10, 2020 Page 2 In closing, we remind you that the company and its management are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or absence of action by the staff. You may contact Ibolya Ignat at (202) 551-3636 or Daniel Gordon at (202) 551- 3486 with any questions. FirstName LastNameCharles Robb Sincerely, Comapany NameCORCEPT THERAPEUTICS INC Division of Corporation Finance November 10, 2020 Page 2 Office of Life Sciences FirstName LastName