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After seeing perspective shifts about opiate dependancy, MDL lawyer targets Fb
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Within the 35 years that Jayne Conroy has been a lawyer, she’s spent all the time in personal follow doing civil litigation and has tried greater than 70 circumstances. She additionally labored her method by legislation faculty as a paralegal, which she says enhanced her training expertise and taught her the perfect methods to know a case file from side to side, in addition to how issues needs to be organized.
Conroy’s work consists of main among the multidistrict litigation involving opiates with jury trials across the nation. By way of that, she’s seen juries and judges change their minds about dependancy and duties.
Her subsequent goal is social media. In 2022, Conroy and different legal professionals introduced a federal motion in opposition to Meta Platforms Inc., which incorporates Fb and Instagram, alleging that the algorithms are designed to be addictive, and that it harms youths who use the websites. The U.S. District Court docket for the Northern District of California grievance’s allegations embody design defect, negligence and fraud.
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Jayne Conroy
Jayne Conroy is a reputation accomplice at Simmons Hanly Conroy, and she or he oversees the agency’s complicated litigation division. Based mostly in New York, Conroy serves on varied court-appointed management committees for multidistrict litigation issues.
