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Fund's
Special Master Adjunct at Penn Law
In November Kenneth R. Feinberg, an adjunct professor of law at
Penn, was named by Attorney General John Ashcroft as the Special Master
for the federal September 11 th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001. The
terms of the compensation awards were announced on December 20, 2001 and,
after accepting official responses from attorneys and the families of
the victims’, formalized at the end of January 2002. Mr. Feinberg is a
Member of The Feinberg Group in Washington, DC. He served as a court appointed
Special Settlement Master on litigation involving asbestos contamination,
Agent Orange, DES, and the Dalkon Shield. He is a member on the Panel
of Arbitrators of the American Arbitration Association. Mr. Feinberg teaches
Evidence at the Law School.
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