NEW YORK – Simmons Hanly Conroy, one of the nation’s largest mass torts firms and a national leader in the legal representation of mesothelioma patients and their families, is pleased to announce that the firm’s named partner Jayne Conroy has been selected to the “Distinguished Leaders” list by the New York Law Journal for the New York Legal Awards 2024.
Finalists and winners in all the 2024 New York Legal Awards categories will be formally recognized at a Sept. 5 ceremony in New York City. The annual awards recognize “attorneys and judges who have made a remarkable difference in the legal profession in New York – whether in shaping the law, achieving outsized results for their clients, being an outstanding jurist or assisting those in need of legal services.”
Simmons Hanly Conroy Chairman and Founder John Simmons said, “We are extremely proud of Jayne’s many achievements and contributions to her clients and to our firm that continue to earn her high accolades from the legal industry, including this year’s New York Legal Awards. Jayne is a leader with the plaintiff’s bar for her lifelong work helping plaintiffs secure justice from institutions responsible for injuring or abusing the public.”
Under Conroy’s leadership, Simmons Hanly Conroy has become one of the country’s largest plaintiff law firms dedicated to helping those injured by corporate wrongdoing. Earning her national reputation as an elite lawyer, Conroy has helped secure billions of dollars in verdicts and settlements for thousands of individuals, families, and communities across the country.
With more than three decades of legal experience, she oversees practice areas in the Simmons Hanly Conroy Complex Litigation Department, focusing on helping plaintiffs exclusively in mass torts, class actions, product liability, pharmaceutical, and sexual abuse litigation.
Conroy serves or has served on dozens of court-appointed leadership committees in complex legal actions of national scope in multidistrict litigations (MDLs), including her co-lead position in the sweeping opioid MDL before U.S. District Judge Dan Polster in Cleveland, Ohio. The opioid MDL has thus far secured more than $50 billion for communities across the nation to abate the opioid epidemic. Conroy also serves as co-lead and interim class counsel representing plaintiffs in the case against Norfolk Southern, the company responsible for the East Palestine train derailment.
In addition, Conroy and Simmons Hanly Conroy are active in high-profile litigations against Google, Uber, and McKinsey as well as water contamination lawsuits seeking compensation for veterans who served at Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina.
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