Distinguished Law Lecturer to Discuss 9/11 Victim Compensation at UA on April 8

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Kenneth Feinberg, one of the nation’s leading experts in mediation and alternative dispute resolution and Special Master of the Sept. 11 Victim Compensation Fund, will visit The University of Alabama School of Law on Thursday, April 8, at 11 a.m. as a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer to discuss “9/11 Victim Compensation: Private Pain and Public Compensation.”

He will be addressing UA Law School Professor Suzette Malveaux’s Complex Litigation class and other University students and faculty. Professor Malveaux, who litigated various nationwide class actions for eight years prior to joining the Law School faculty, invited Feinberg “because of the tremendous importance of finding creative solutions to the very complex problems we face today,” she says.

Feinberg is the managing partner and founder of The Feinberg Group, LLP. He received his J.D. from New York University School of Law. He has served as Special Settlement Master in several high-profile cases, including Andrew Herman, et al. v. Westinghouse Electric Corporation (employment discrimination class action), Agent Orange Product Liability Litigation, and several asbestos personal injury cases. He was one of three arbitrators selected to determine the fair market value of the original Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination and one of two arbitrators selected to determine the allocation of legal fees in the Holocaust slave labor litigations.

The event is open to the media.