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...Working pro bono as head of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, Feinberg reached out to all who qualified to file a claim, evaluated applications, determined appropriate compensation and distributed awards. He personally took part in most of the 1,500 hearings with survivors and victims' families, and his staff of 200 spent 33 months investigating claims and deciding benefits. In 2005, Feinberg published a book, What Is Life Worth?, in which he recounted his experiences...
...Left Kennedy's office in 1980 to help found the Washington office of law firm Kaye Scholer LLP. After 12 years, he started his own firm, the Feinberg Group (now Feinberg Rozen...
...mediator, Feinberg helped resolve a string of high-profile cases, including some of the nation's biggest asbestos-damages suits, a $2.5 billion settlement for women suing over a defective contraceptive device, and a class action by 250,000 Vietnam veterans and their families against the manufacturers of Agent Orange. Though the Agent Orange case had been dragging on for more than eight years, Feinberg after just six weeks on the job was able to reach a $180 million settlement between the toxic defoliant's manufacturers and its victims. Some critics noted, however, that although veterans sometimes waited years...
...People should read some e-mails I received during the 9/11-fund work. 'Dear Mr. Feinberg: My son died in Oklahoma City. Where's my check?' ... How do you carve out the very special, generous use of public taxpayer money for just a small group of victims of life's misfortune?" - Explaining the turmoil he felt over having to turn down victims and families of victims of other tragedies because "the public-policy response to the 9/11 tragedy is unique to an unprecedented historical event" (The Washingtonian, March...
Quotes About: • "His natural talent is cutting a deal that everybody can live with." - John C. Coffee Jr., a law professor at Columbia University, where Feinberg once taught (New York Times...