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Butler Snow’s Christy Jones Named to Product Liability Council

JACKSON, Miss. (January 22, 2008) – Christy Jones, recognized as one of the nation’s leading pharmaceutical and healthcare defense attorneys, has been appointed a sustaining member of the Product Liability Advisory Council. Jones co-chairs the Pharmaceutical, Medical Device and Healthcare Industry Group at Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, PLLC. 

Jones has tried product liability cases, including pharmaceutical and medical device cases, in multiple jurisdictions including New Jersey, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, South Carolina and Mississippi. She is a member of the national trial team defending Merck in its major product liability cases involving Vioxx. Jones also served on the national trial team in the mammary implant litigation for Baxter; as nationwide coordinator of certain litigation for Champion International, Inc., prior to its acquisition by International Paper; as regional counsel in DTP vaccine litigation for American Cyanamid Co. (now Wyeth); and its various entities, Merck & Co., Inc., GlaxoSmithKline, and other pharmaceutical companies.

The Product Liability Advisory Council, Inc. (PLAC) is a non-profit association representing a broad cross-section of American and international product manufacturers. These companies seek to contribute to the improvement and reform of law in the United States and elsewhere

governing the liability of manufacturers of products. PLAC’s perspective is derived from the experiences of a corporate membership that spans a diverse group of industries in various facets of the manufacturing sector.

In addition several hundred of the leading product liability defense attorneys in the country are sustaining (non-voting) members of PLAC. Since 1983 PLAC has filed over 800 briefs as amicus curiae in both state and federal courts presenting the broad perspective of product manufacturers seeking fairness and balance in the application and development of the law as it affects product liability.