JAMS ADR News & Press Releases

Philadelphia – JAMS, the premier provider of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) services worldwide, is pleased to announce that Hon. Natasha L. Abel (Ret.) has joined following 16 years of experience as a trial attorney, program manager, administrative judge and supervisory administrative judge for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). During her tenure at the EEOC from 2009 to 2025, Judge Abel managed a broad range of employment discrimination cases involving race, color, religion, sex (including sexual orientation, transgender status and pregnancy), national origin, age

Philadelphia – JAMS, the premier provider of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) services, is pleased to announce that Hon. Joel Schneider (Ret.), a former United States magistrate judge for the District of New Jersey, has joined its panel. Drawing on four decades of experience as a federal judge and trial lawyer, he brings deep knowledge in resolving complex, high-stakes civil disputes. Judge Schneider served on the federal bench from 2006 to 2021, during which time he managed, settled, tried and decided thousands of cases and authored hundreds of published opinions. Prior to his judicial

Minneapolis – JAMS, the premier provider of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) services worldwide, is pleased to announce that Hon. Mildred E. “Mimi” Methvin (Ret.) has joined its panel. Judge Methvin brings decades of experience facilitating thousands of settlements on the federal bench during her 30-year judicial career. Appointed as the nation’s youngest federal judge, Judge Methvin served first in the Western District of Louisiana, then in the Mid-Atlantic through recall service. Over the course of her tenure, including her service as a Louisiana district judge pro tempore in 2014, she