Opioid Judge Appoints Lead Counsel to Negotiate Potential Class Settlement
On Monday, U.S. District Judge Dan Polster appointed Chris Seeger of Seeger Weiss and Jayne Conroy of Simmons Hanly Conroy to serve as interim, co-lead counsel for a proposed negotiation class that would serve as a potential model to settle cases brought over the opioid crisis.
August 19, 2019 at 09:44 PM
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A federal judge weighing whether to approve a proposed class to negotiate with defendants over a potential settlement of prescription opioid lawsuits has ordered that only two lawyers, Christopher Seeger and Jayne Conroy, should be at the negotiation table.
In a Monday order, U.S. District Judge Dan Polster of the Northern District of Ohio approved Seeger of Seeger Weiss in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, and Conroy, of New York’s Simmons Hanly Conroy, to serve as interim, co-lead counsel for a proposed negotiation class that would serve as a potential model to settle cases brought over the opioid crisis.
Only those lawyers, he wrote, could “represent the class in settlement negotiations with defendants.” Some of the defendants, he wrote, had claimed that “conflicted lawyers continue to sign the moving papers and propose to continue negotiating for class members.”
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