NEW YORK, NY—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 shareholder Jayne Conroy is a recipient of the Champion of Justice lifetime achievement award from the Public Justice legal advocacy organization.
Conroy serves or has served on dozens of court-appointed leadership committees in complex legal actions of national scope. She also recently was selected as co-lead and interim class counsel representing plaintiffs in the case against Norfolk Southern, the company responsible for the Feb. 3, 2023, East Palestine train derailment. In addition, Conroy currently serves as co-lead of the National Prescription Opiate Multidistrict Litigation in the Northern District of Ohio.
