Legal Cyber Academy

Mariana McConnell

Senior Litigation Counsel, The Lanier Law Firm

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  • Kiesel Law LLP

About

Mariana Aroditis, whose California bar record reads Mariana Aroditis McConnell, is Senior Litigation Counsel at The Lanier Law Firm, handling personal injury, product liability and business litigation. She served as co-lead and liaison counsel in JCCP 5255, the social media addiction proceeding in which a Los Angeles County jury found Meta and YouTube liable in March 2026 and returned a six million dollar verdict, and she continues to work on that docket. She was previously with Kiesel Law LLP, which described her as co-lead counsel on that trial, and has served as liaison counsel in the SoCalGas Porter Ranch leak litigation and as co-lead counsel managing settlements resolving thousands of JUUL Labs claims. She earned her J.D. cum laude from Southwestern Law School and a B.A. from Pepperdine University, and is admitted in California and Texas. At Legal Cyber Academy she teaches on authenticating social media evidence.

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