Hon. Jane Cutler Greenspan (Ret.) serves as an arbitrator, mediator, referee/special master, and neutral evaluator throughout the country in complex business/commercial, labor, and personal injury matters. She also has deep experience in Title IX matters and can conduct neutral investigations, hearings and has extensive experience as an external adjudicator.

Justice Greenspan joined the JAMS panel following a distinguished judicial and legal career spanning more than three decades. She served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania authoring noteworthy decisions and was involved in decisions including but not limited to insurance coverage, legal and medical malpractice, class actions, environmental, trusts and estates, land use, elections, taxation, municipalities and government, employment, workers compensation, and surety. Prior to that, she served for 20 years as a Judge in the Trial Division of the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, and more than 10 years as an Assistant District Attorney where she served as a Unit Chief. Justice Greenspan has utilized her extensive legal experience to conduct moot courts for appellate matters and oversee mock arguments.

Justice Greenspan was a Director of the American College of Business Court Judges and is a member of the American Law Institute. Due to her Title IX experience at several colleges, universities, and institutions of higher learning, Justice Greenspan was chosen to serve as an Advisor to the ALI Project on Campus Sexual Assault. She draws upon her wide-ranging legal experience and her diverse perspectives to resolve high stakes disputes in complex, multi-party cases. For matters that do not result in settlement the day of the mediation session, Justice Greenspan makes it a regular practice to follow up with counsel in the days and weeks after to tenaciously pursue resolution.

ADR Experience and Qualifications

• Certified as a civil mediator by the National Judicial College
• Served as a Major Trial Calendar Judge, Civil Discovery Judge, Section Leader of the Expedited Mixed Calendar, Civil Motions Judge
  • Handled all civil discovery for the entire Court of Common Pleas over an entire year as civil discovery judge
  • Handled and settled disputes at the motions stage and in equity cases including inter alia, real estate development, union strike, banking, and finance litigation 
• Justice Greenspan handled a wide variety of matters as an arbitrator, mediator, trial judge and Supreme Court Justice including complex litigation involving:
  • Accounting/Finance
  • Administrative Law
  • Appellate
  • Arbitration
  • Aviation involving both tort and contract
  • Banking
  • Bankruptcy
  • Business/Commercial
  • Civil Rights
  • Class Action/Mass Tort
  • Construction Defect
  • Education/Schools
  • Employment/Labor
  • Energy/Utility
  • Entertainment/Sports
  • Environmental
  • Estate/Probate/Trusts
  • Family Law
  • Financial Instruments including Swaps and Derivatives
  • Franchise
  • Governmental/Public Agency
  • Healthcare
  • Insurance
  • Personal Injury/Torts
  • Pharmaceuticals/Mass Torts
  • Professional Liability: auditor, medical, and legal
  • Real Property
  • Telecommunications

• Recipient, Arthur E. Armitage Sr. Distinguished Alumni Award, Rutgers Law–Camden Alumni Association, 2016
• Recipient, Raymond J. Harley Award, Philadelphia District Attorneys Alumni Association, 2011
• Recipient, "Woman of Valor" award, Anti Defamation League of Philadelphia, June 2010
• Recipient, Award for Service to the Bench, Bar, and Citizenry, Lawyers’ Club of Philadelphia, 2008
   

Professional Activities

• Completed Virtual ADR training conducted by the JAMS Institute, the training arm of JAMS
• Advisor, ALI Project on Sexual and Gender-Based Misconduct on Campus
• Director, American College of Business Court Judges, (Emeritus)
• Appointed E-Discovery Special Master and E-Discovery Mediator for the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
• Appointed Bankruptcy Mediator for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Districts of Delaware and New York 
• Executive Committee, University of Pennsylvania American Inn of Court, 1996-2010 (President, 2004-2006 and Chairman, 2007-2009) 
• Member, American Law Institute, since 2009 
• Adjunct Professor and Arlin M. Adams Lecturer-in-Law teaching Appellate Advocacy, University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1989-1994
   

Selected Presentations and Speaking Engagements

• Speaker, lecturer, panelist, and participant before numerous legal and professional organizations including:
  • Presenter, “A Comprehensive Training in Advanced Arbitration Skills,” 12th Annual Arbitration Training Institute, American Bar Association, Philadelphia, PA, May 2019
  • Presenter on "Judge's Panel" Pepper Hamilton's Commercial Litigation CLE Event, Westin Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, June 2013
  • Speaker, “Mediation How to Achieve a Successful Resolution of Your Client’s Case from a Former PA Supreme Court Justice”, 48th Annual Employment Law Institute program, April 2012
  • Speaker/Panelist, "Philadelphia Complex Litigation Conference: Examining the Court's New Mass Tort and Asbestos Protocols" on June 5, 2012 "Ethics and Mass Torts: Settlements and Mediation."
  • Speaker/Panelist, “275 Years of Freedom of the Press: A Reenactment of the Trial of John Peter Zenger”, Philadelphia Bar Association Annual Bench Bar Conference, Atlantic City, NJ, October 2010
  • Speaker, “Mass Tort Litigation – Ethics”, Pennsylvania Bar Institute – CLE program, Philadelphia, PA, September 2010
  • Participant - Searle Center, Northwestern University School of Law Judicial Symposiums: “The Pharmaceutical Industry: Economics, Regulations, and Legal Issues,” May, 2009; “Corporate Finance for Business Court Judges,” April 2008

• Justice, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 2008-2010
• Judge, Court of Common Pleas, Trial Division, 1987-2008
• Assistant District Attorney, Office of the District Attorney, Philadelphia, PA, 1976-1987
• Law Clerk to the late Honorable Robert N.C. Nix, Jr., Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 1973-1975
• J.D., with High Honors, Rutgers University School of Law, Camden, NJ, 1973, Law Journal
• A.B., Smith College, Northampton, MA, 1970