HIGHLIGHTS:
- Super Lawyers Rising Star in Antitrust Litigation in 2018-2023
- Judicial intern to the Hon. Stephen T. Brown, Chief Magistrate Judge in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida
- Certified legal intern in the narcotics unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida
- Best Lawyers “Ones to Watch” – 2021
BIO:
Ms. Conston is an associate in Scott+Scott’s New York office that has recovered billions of dollars on behalf of investors for manipulation of financial benchmarks by numerous major banks. In re Foreign Exchange Benchmark Rates Antitrust Litig., No. 13-cv-7789 (S.D.N.Y.) ($2.3 billion settlement); In re GSE Bonds Antitrust Litig., No. 19-cv-01704 (S.D.N.Y.) ($386.5 million settlement); and In re European Government Bonds Antitrust Litig., No. 19-cv-2601 (S.D.N.Y.) ($120 million settlement). Ms. Conston is presently part of the team serving as Co-Lead Counsel for the producers and exchange classes in In re Cattle and Beef Antitrust Litigation, No. 0:22-md-03031 (D. Minn.) and serves as interim Lead Class Counsel for the Direct Purchaser Plaintiffs in In re FICO Antitrust Litigation, No. 1:20-cv-02114 (N.D. Ill.). Ms. Conston also currently works on consumer cases against drug manufacturers alleging on behalf of a class of third-party payers that their drugs were contaminated by carcinogenic and genotoxic impurities and were therefore adulterated, unapproved, and should not have been sold. In re: Metformin Marketing and Sales Practices Litig., No.: 2:20-cv-02324-MCA-MAH (D.N.J.) and In re: Chantix (Varenicline) Marketing, Sales Practices and Products Liability Litig., No. 22-mc-03050 (S.D.N.Y.).
Prior to joining Scott+Scott, Ms. Conston represented institutional investors, hedge funds, and individual investors in complex class action litigation arising under the Commodity Exchange Act, Sherman Act, RICO Act, and common law. She was heavily involved in litigating actions alleging the manipulation of the London Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”) for several currencies by large financial institutions (e.g., Laydon v. Mizuho Bank, Ltd., No. 12-cv-3419 (S.D.N.Y.) and Sullivan v. Barclays plc, No. 13-cv-00281 (S.D.N.Y.)), as well as an action alleging manipulation of the daily London Silver Fixing by the Fixing Banks and several other financial institutions (In re London Silver Fixing, Ltd., Antitrust Litig., No. 14-md-02573 (S.D.N.Y.)).