Attorney Kenneth Feinberg to Speak in Keller Hall

The School of Law will host a public talk from prominent attorney Kenneth Feinberg on Tuesday, March 22, at 7 p.m., in the Heck Courtroom in Keller Hall.

The program, "Unconventional Responses to Unique Disasters: An Evening with Kenneth Feinberg," is sponsored by LexisNexis.

Feinberg is best known for serving as the special master of the federal government's September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. He shared this experience in his book What Is Life Worth? The Unprecedented Effort to Compensate the Victims of 9/11, published in 2005 by Public Affairs Press. Feinberg will sign copies of his book at the conclusion of the program.

He also oversaw the Virginia Tech memorial fund and currently serves as the administrator of the BP oil spill compensation fund. He recently discussed his work in a profile by the ABA Journal.

Following Feinberg's remarks, Dean Lisa Kloppenberg will moderate a discussion with Jay Folberg, former dean of University of San Francisco School of Law, and Professor Thomas Hagel of the University of Dayton School of Law.

Feinberg, who founded Feinberg Rozen, LLP in 1992, focuses much of his legal work on mediation and alternative dispute resolution. He is also an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, Columbia University School of Law and at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University. In 2004, he was named "Lawyer of the Year" by the National Law Journal, and has been named repeatedly as one of "The 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America" by the National Law Journal.

Dean Kloppenberg worked with Feinberg at Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler in Washington, D.C.