Kenneth Feinberg

Kenneth R. Feinberg is one of the nation’s leading experts in alternative dispute resolution, having served as Special Master of the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, the Department of Justice Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Fund, the Department of the Treasury’s TARP Executive Compensation Program and the Treasury’s Private Multiemployer Pension Reform program. He was also Special Settlement Master of the Agent Orange Victim Compensation Program. In 2010, Mr. Feinberg was appointed by the Obama Administration to oversee compensation of victims of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Most recently, he has served as Administrator of the nationwide Dioceses’ Independent Reconciliation and Compensation Funds (along with dioceses in four other states), the One Orlando Fund, the GM Ignition Switch Compensation Program, and the One Fund Boston Compensation Program arising out of the Boston Marathon bombings. He was also the Court-appointed Settlement Master in the Ford/Chrysler Diesel Emissions class action litigation in San Francisco and serves in a similar capacity in the Monsanto Roundup mass tort litigation. He has been appointed mediator, arbitrator, and court appointed Special Master in thousands of complex disputes over the past 40 years.

Mr. Feinberg was a member of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Human Radiation Experiments from 1994 to 1998; the Presidential Commission on Catastrophic Nuclear Accidents from 1989 to 1990 and the Carnegie Commission Task Force on Science and Technology in Judicial and Regulatory Decision Making from 1989 to 1993. He previously chaired the American Bar Association Special Committee on Mass Torts from 1988 to 1989.

RATE: $75,000 per Hearing/Mediation Day; $2,500 hourly study rate