Originally from Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation

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During the CPR Institute’s 2019 Annual Meeting earlier this year, three of the nation’s top neutrals—all best known for tackling mass torts and cases involving the government—spoke in a roundtable discussion, in person and by telephone, with Alternatives’ then-publisher Noah Hanft and editor Russ Bleemer.

The discussion participants included:

• Kenneth R. Feinberg, who heads his own Washington, D.C., law firm, and has worked on many settlement claims facilities, including the Sept. 11 Victims Compensation Fund and BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill remediation; currently, he is administering a $50 million facility for families of victims of crashes involving Boeing’s 737 MAX airplanes;

• Eric Green, of Resolutions LLC in Boston, who has handled major bank monitoring cases for the Justice Department, overseen many tort compensation schemes, and mediated the antitrust claims in U.S. v. Microsoft; and

• Francis McGovern, a law professor at the Duke University School of Law in Durham, N.C., who has acted as a court-appointed special master or neutral in matters including DDT toxic exposure, the Dalkon-Shield controversy, and, currently, on the multidistrict litigation in Cleveland involving the sale and distribution of opioids.