Jed D. Melnick, Esq. has been involved in the mediation and successful resolution of hundreds of complex disputes with an aggregate value in the billions of dollars. He has mediated over 750 disputes, published articles on mediation, founded a nationally ranked dispute resolution journal and taught young mediators. Mr. Melnick serves as a mediator, appointed by Judge Kaplan, in the Lehman ADR Derivative Contract Program. He is the managing mediator for the Weinstein Group, led by the Hon. Daniel Weinstein (Ret.), one of the nation’s preeminent mediators of complex civil disputes.
In 2010 and 2011, Mr. Melnick was selected as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyers “Rising Star,” the only “Rising Star” in the Alternative Dispute Resolution category in Pennsylvania. He was also selected to the 2010 list of Pennsylvania “Lawyers on the Fast Track,” a recognition given to 30 Pennsylvania Lawyers under the age of 40 by Legal Intelligencer and the Pennsylvania Law Weekly.
ADR Experience and Qualifications
- Managing mediator for the Weinstein Group; mediates cases with aggregate values of billions of dollars annually and helps to design innovative processes tailored to unique, complex and highly sensitive cases
- Leading settlement efforts and working closely with Alabama District Court Judge Scott Coogler in a three-day mediation in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in MBUSI v. Cobasys
- Part of team that settled Adelphia Communications Corp. v. Deloitte & Touche LLP, pending in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas
- Settlement Master and Judge Pro-Tem in the Appellate Mediation Program for the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas
Representative Matters
- Anti-trust Matters - including Nurse Wage Litigation, In Re: Air Cargo Antitrust Litigation (E.D.N.Y.), Muni Derivatives Market Litigation
- Contract Disputes - including Exelon Generation Company, LLC v. General Atomic Technologies Corp., Sunoco, Inc. v. Epsilon and matters involving GM and Mercedes Benz
- Coverage Litigation - including In Re: UnumProvident Corp., Aon, SCOR, American Business Financial Systems, Inc.
- Employment Litigation - including the lead role mediating numerous matters as a federal mediator and panel member for the EEOC, including matters for Sunoco, Pitney Bowes, as well as numerous city and state agencies and authorities
- ERISA Litigation - including Fiduciary Counselors, Inc. v. Magnuson, In Re: Ferro Corporation ERISA Litigation
- Securities Class Actions - involving Adelphia, Enron, Lehman Directors and other major NYSE and NASDAQ corporations including:
- In Re Telik, Inc. Securities Litigation
- In Re: TeleTech Securities Litigation
- In Re: Lumenis Ltd. Securities Litigation
- In Re: Transkaryotic Therapies, Inc. Securities Litigation
- In Re: SCOR Holding AG Securities Litigation
- In Re: Taro Pharmaceutical Industries Securities Litigation
- Subprime Litigation - including New Century, ABFS, Lehman Brothers and extensive experience mediating issues coming out of the Subprime meltdown including Auction Rate Securities, Mortgage Backed Securities, Credit Default Swaps, Securities Class Actions, related insurance coverage issues and bankruptcy issues
- Mediated dispute between a top nuclear physicist and premier defense contractor
- Mediated complex class action multi-party $100 million dollar settlement in the New Century "sub-prime" bankruptcy
- Mediated settlement of ERISA class action pending against Comcast Corp. that helped pave the way for the NBC and Comcast merger
- Served as mediator in complex multi-party dispute involving alleged "mare lease" tax shelters and numerous defendants
- Successfully mediated dispute between founding members of a company, investment hedge funds and acquiring company after a merger
- Working with Hon. Daniel Weinstein (Ret.), mediated numerous aspects of the Adelphia Bankruptcy including the class actions against the Investment Banks, Auditor and Directors and Officers of Adelphia, Adelphia Recovery Trust (ART) settlement with the Auditor for 167.5 million, the ART settlement with the Wall Street Investment Banks for 175 million and numerous other cases involving the Directors and Officers and Auditor