Jayne Conroy is a named shareholder at Simmons Hanly Conroy and oversees practice areas in the Complex Litigation Department. Under her leadership, the firm has become one of the country's largest plaintiff law firms dedicated to helping those injured by corporate wrongdoing.
With a legal career spanning more than three decades, Jayne has earned a superb national reputation as an elite trial lawyer, skilled strategist and decisive negotiator. She has consistently helped secure billions of dollars in verdicts and settlements for thousands of individuals, families and communities in numerous courtrooms nationwide.
“œWe are a threat to defendants because we are everywhere,” Jayne said while talking about the depth of experience in her department. “œThey know they have to deal with us, and we are prepared to try cases.”
Jayne focuses her practice on helping plaintiffs exclusively in mass torts, class actions, product liability, pharmaceutical and sexual abuse litigation. She serves or has served on dozens of court-appointed leadership committees in complex legal actions of national scope. These complex mass tort cases, called multidistrict litigations or MDLs, involve thousands of cases originating from state courts around the country and consolidated before a single federal judge.
Her recent high-profile cases include serving on the lead trial team that secured three consecutive bellwether 9-figure verdicts on behalf of patients injured by Johnson & Johnson/DePuy's Pinnacle metal-on-metal hip replacement; serving on leadership in the Volkswagen emission scandal MDL; helping families impacted by the 9/11 terrorist attacks; serving as the co-chair of the Environmental Testing Committee for the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster MDL; representing hundreds of sex abuse victims in individual cases against a variety of religious, educational and civic organizations; and, most recently, serving as co-lead of an innovative negotiation class making up 34,000 American counties and cities involved in the ongoing National Prescription Opiate MDL.
“œTerrible things have happened to my clients that I can't change, but what I can do is try and get them the justice they deserve,” Jayne said. “œWe are the best at doing that.”
The results Jayne has helped secure for her clients underscore the quality of her legal work. Her vast experience orchestrating large and multifaceted multidistrict litigations has resulted in multiple, significant settlements for her clients and thousands of others nationwide.