Emily Roark

Background

About Emily Roark

Emily has a passion to protect people who have been harmed by bad drugs and defective medical devices. While many pharmaceutical and medical device companies tend to think their consumers are expendable, Emily understands that each person and each case has its own unique value and she fights fiercely for justice for her clients. Over her career, Emily has been involved in multi-district litigation and class actions involving, train derailments, medical devices such as Essure, Transvaginal Mesh, and IVC Filters, pharmaceuticals such as Abilify and Zofran, products such as Roundup, and several different manufacturers of hip replacements, to name a few. In June 2021 she was appointed to the Plaintiff’s Executive Committee (PEC) in JCCP NO. 5150 Ranitidine Products Cases Superior Court of the State of California. The PEC, along with the leaders of the Executive Committee, manages the Zantac (and generic Ranitidine) litigation in California state court and Emily is one of its four members. The case allows plaintiffs alleging the heartburn medication causes certain types of cancers can pursue their Zantac lawsuit claims in California state court as part of a newly established Judicial Council Coordinated Proceedings (JCCP). Allegations in the federal and state groups of cases are essentially the same—that Ranitidine also contained a cancer-causing contaminant. August 16, 2021, she was appointed to the Plaintiff’s Steering Committee in Multi-District Litigation 21-md-02996-CRB IN RE: MCKINSEY & CO, IN NATIONAL PRESCRIPTION OPIATE CONSULTANT LITIGATION. The committee consists of attorneys managing cases nationwide on behalf of counties and municipalities who have been forced to expend funds battling the opioid epidemic brought on in part by the misconduct of McKinsey & Co, a major opioid distributor. Most recently, on August 20, 2021, Emily was appointed as a Special Justice of the Supreme Court of Kentucky by Governor Andy Beshear. Emily is a former President of the McCracken County Bar Association and is a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys, American Association for Justice, and Fellow of Litigation Counsel of America. She is also a member of the Kentucky Justice Association where she served on the Board of Governors from 2016-2017. Adding to her many accomplishments, Emily is also a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum which is comprised of attorneys who have won million and multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements. Currently, she serves on the Barkley Regional Airport Board.