MICHAEL K. ROZEN Mr. Rozen is a partner in The Feinberg Group, LLP, specializing in the negotiation, mediation and settlement of complex multi-party disputes. Mr. Rozen has successfully negotiated or mediated thousands of disputes in such areas as products liability—including asbestos, lead paint, fen-phen, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and others—toxic tort and environmental insurance coverage, shareholder class actions, employment discrimination, intellectual property and numerous other business and commercial matters. In addition to his work as a privately retained settlement counselor, mediator and arbitrator, Mr. Rozen served as the court-appointed Special Settlement Master/Referee for asbestos litigation, in a joint federal and state appointment, in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and New York State Supreme Court from January 1994 through July 1999, as well as the Special Discovery Master/Referee for asbestos litigation in the City of New York from September 1996 through July 1999. Mr. Rozen has also served as Special Settlement/Discovery Master, In re Informix Corporation Securities Litigation (securities fraud class action); Court-appointed Mediator, Rapid American v. Allstate Insurance Co. et al. (insurance coverage action involving numerous carriers); Special Settlement/Discovery Master, Herman v. Westinghouse Electric Company (employment discrimination class action); Special Settlement Master, Cook v. Georgia Pacific Corp., et al. (consolidation of asbestos cases); Court-appointed Mediator, Maxicare Health Plans, Inc. v. Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Welfare, et al. (health care bankruptcy); Special Settlement Master, In re Eastern District Asbestos Litigation (consolidation of asbestos cases remanded from MDL court); In re Certain Lead Paint Cases (appointed by court to allocate settlement funds among numerous individuals). From mid-1998 through mid-1999, Mr. Rozen assisted Owens Corning Corporation in devising and negotiating a $2.5 billion “global” resolution of its nationwide asbestos litigation, a settlement involving over 200,000 claimants, and prior to and since that time has assisted several other corporations with so-called prepackaged asbestos bankruptcies. He currently represents Pfizer Inc. as national settlement counsel for its asbestos and certain pharmaceutical drug litigation. In addition, Mr. Rozen was a Deputy Special Master of the United States Government's September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001. Mr. Rozen is an active member of various bar associations and has served as chair or co-chair of ADR and tort committees. He has appeared as a panelist on numerous ABA, PLI and private programs, and has lectured extensively throughout the U.S. to corporations, investors, attorneys, and the judiciary on ADR, mass torts, complex litigations, ethics, and other matters. Mr. Rozen received a B.A. from Tufts University in 1986 and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1989, where he was a member of the American Criminal Law Review. Mr. Rozen practiced as a litigator at Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler from 1989 to 1993 and joined The Feinberg Group at its inception in March 1993.
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