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About Katie Mesner-Hage
Katie Mesner-Hage began her career at Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder in 2013 as the firm's first Theodore I. Koskoff Public Interest Fellow, and then as an associate. With her blend of empathy for her clients and passion for justice, Katie quickly became a valuable asset to the firm. After several years pursuing other legal ventures, she was a welcome addition back to the Koskoff team in 2023. During her fellowship, Katie became an integral member of the team that brought suit against the manufacturer, distributor, and seller of the weapon used in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on behalf of ten families.
Katie was recognized by the Connecticut Law Tribune in its 2015 Personal Injury Hall of Fame for her work with Josh Koskoff in obtaining an 8 million dollar verdict against a physician who failed to diagnose and treat a patient's depression, resulting in his suicide. Katie is a 2013 graduate of Yale Law School, where she was a finalist in the Harlan Fiske Stone Moot Court and a member of Yale's nationally-competitive Trial Advocacy Team. During her time at Yale, Katie worked with the Office of the Public Defender in New Haven and spent her summers in Louisiana and Texas representing indigent clients on death row.
Katie was named a Connecticut Bar Foundation Fellow in recognition of her commitment to public interest law. In 2012, Katie served as a judicial intern to the Honorable Shira Scheindlin of the Southern District of New York. Prior to law school, Katie worked as a paralegal for a civil rights law firm in Washington D.C.
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On December 14, 2012, a 20-year-old gunman used a Bushmaster XM15-E2S rifle made by Remington to kill 20 first graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Nine of the victims' families sued Remington in 2014, arguing that its marketing of the AR-15-style rifle to young, violence-prone men was an unfair trade practice that fell outside the federal immunity gun makers enjoy. The Connecticut Supreme Court let that claim proceed in 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene, and after Remington went through bankruptcy twice its four insurers agreed on February 15, 2022 to pay the families the full $73 million available under five policies. Remington also had to release thousands of pages of internal marketing documents.
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