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Mizzou grants award to firm shareholder
Staff Report//January 31, 2023
Sarah Burns, an Alton, Illinois shareholder at Simmons Hanly Conroy and a University of Missouri alumnus, accepted a Column Award from the university’s College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources (CAFNR).
The award recognizes CAFNR alumni with professional contributions, accomplishments, affiliations and careers that honor the school’s legacy. Burns was the honoree for the CAFNR’s biochemistry pillar as an ‘01 alumnus with a biochemistry degree.
Burns is a member of the firm’s opioid litigation team, which represents counties and municipalities alleging responsibility of pharmaceutical companies in the opioid crisis. She works within the firm’s complex litigation department, handling business torts including prescription opioid litigation, consumer safety cases and mass tort multidistrict litigation.
Burns earned her law degree from the University of Tulsa in 2004.
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