Shipman & Goodwin partners George Jepsen (former Connecticut State Attorney General) and Perry Zinn Rowthorn (former Connecticut Chief Deputy Attorney General), co-leaders of the firm's State Attorneys General practice, have authored this op-ed that appeared in Cleveland Plain Dealer opposing a proposal to create a class of local governments to negotiate a global settlement with opioid drug companies.

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