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Jordana “Jordy” H. Feldman joins JAMS as a nationally recognized authority in the design, implementation and administration of high-profile victim compensation programs and as a seasoned ADR practitioner.
Ms. Feldman recently served as the independent neutral administrator of the Epstein Victims’ Compensation Program, a voluntary, confidential, non-adversarial program established to compensate the victims of sexual abuse by the late financier, Jeffrey Epstein. She designed the criteria for determining eligibility and compensation, maintained exclusive and final decision-making authority over the evaluation of claims, held confidential hearings with individual claimants and distributed nearly $125 million to eligible individuals over the course of approximately one year.
Ms. Feldman previously served as deputy special master of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund (VCF), the federal litigation-alternative program administered by the United States Department of Justice’s Civil Division. The VCF was created in 2001 to compensate the thousands of victims who died or suffered physical injuries as a result of the September 11 terrorist attacks and was reopened in 2011 to address the claims of tens of thousands of individuals who developed September 11–related illnesses in the aftermath of the attacks. The VCF has awarded approximately $20 billion since its inception. Ms. Feldman worked on the VCF through each of its various iterations, playing a key leadership role in developing program policies, presiding over hearings with victims and their families, determining eligibility and compensation for thousands of claims, and interfacing with numerous federal, state and local government agencies, private entities and other stakeholders.
Prior to joining the Justice Department, Ms. Feldman served as counsel in the Complex Alternative Dispute Resolution group of the Dickstein Shapiro law firm. At Dickstein Shapiro, she advised clients in the design, implementation and administration of complex settlements and mass claims resolution programs arising out of, among others, class actions, federal legislative enactments and Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganizations. She handled matters involving complex business, commercial and insurance coverage, bankruptcy, class action, mass tort, personal injury and product liability disputes. Prior to her tenure with the VCF, she was a litigation associate with Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, an international law firm headquartered in New York City.
Ms. Feldman is an experienced ADR professional who applies a panoply of sophisticated case management tools to the diverse matters, large and small, over which she presides. She has been praised for her judicious, empathetic and pragmatic approach to designing dispute resolution processes that provide parties with meaningful opportunities to participate and to be heard. Her ability to comprehend quickly the highly sophisticated elements of a dispute, along with her reputation for integrity and compassion, enable her to guide deeply entrenched parties toward the practical, efficient, cost-effective and just resolution of disputes.
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