Sept. 11 Fund Master to Speak at Rutgers-Camden Law School

For Immediate Release

CAMDEN -- Kenneth R. Feinberg, special master of the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund, will deliver a free public lecture, The September 11 Fund: Private Pain and Public Compensation, at Rutgers UniversityCamden from 12:30 to 1:45 p.m. Monday, Jan. 31.

During the past three years, Feinberg managed the federal program created to compensate those directly affected by the 2001 terrorist attacks. On a pro bono basis, he directed the complex process of distributing $7 billion in awards; drafted regulations to administer the fund; held dozens of meetings with bereaved families; and personally presided over more than 900 hearings.

Widely considered one of the nation's leading experts on alternative dispute resolution, Feinberg recently was named Lawyer of the Year by the National Law Journal in recognition of his service to the nation through the September 11 Fund.

Feinberg, who currently serves as managing partner of The Feinberg Group law firm in Washington, D.C., also has helped to settle some of the nation's most complex mass tort cases, including litigation involving Agent Orange, asbestos, and the drug DES.

Sponsored by the Rutgers University School of Law at Camden, this free lecture will be held in the Multi-Purpose Room on the main level of the Campus Center, located on Third Street, between Cooper Street and the Benjamin Franklin Bridge on the Camden campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

Directions to Rutgers-Camden are available online at www.camden.rutgers.edu. For more information, call (856) 225-6026.

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