JUDITH P. MEYER, a highly respected arbitrator and mediator, has successfully resolved more than 800 complex commercial disputes.
ADR Experience and Qualifications
Judith Meyer has enjoyed a distinguished career as a mediator and arbitrator applying her extensive ADR expertise to resolve more than 800 disputes involving virtually all areas of law including: contract, environmental, employment, construction, franchise, tort, personal injury, malpractice, insurance; class actions, bankruptcy, franchise, and UM/UIM cases. Ms. Meyer has served as a mediator or arbitrator on a number of ADR panels including: September 11 Victims’ Compensation Fund of 2001; EEOC Mediation Services Panel; National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.; USA Track and Field Olympic Trials, Doping Grievances Panel; American Health Lawyers’ Association; Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas and Philadelphia Commerce Court as a Judge Pro Tem; and certified mediator, USDC, Eastern District Pennsylvania.
Representative Matters
Mediation
- Mediator/arbitrator in national class action alleging fraudulent sales practices in the placement of life insurance
- Mediator in 11 U.S.C. Section 547 preference avoidance actions
- Claim of system failure by NASD broker dealer against clearing firm
- Denial of tenure to university hospital physician in Department of Psychiatry
- Declaratory judgment action determining whether a single deductible covers “interrelated wrongful acts” or whether each act is subject to its own deductible
- Craniectomy and removal of brain stem meningioma in 53 year old male corporate executive, subsequent death due to undetected cerebral hemorrhage
- Attorney malpractice for alleged failure to understand and/or advise client of terms of Joint Tortfeasor Release which reduced $2.5 million verdict to $400,000
- Death of father and son, wife/mother surviving as amputee, in action against construction company, trucking company and Department of Transportation
- Gender and religious discrimination, interference with contractual relationship claims surrounding termination of tenured chairman of department nuclear medicine
- Multi-contractor dispute arising from construction of Liberty Place, a major Philadelphia business and retail center
- Breach of distributorship agreement providing for entry of major American brand name product to European Union
Arbitration
- Arbitrator under national franchisor/franchisee class action settlement agreement
- Dispute under pharmaceutical asset purchase and manufacture/supply agreement regarding inclusion of placebo form of product;
- Claim by electrical contractor for work acceleration and compression in construction of $73 million school project
- Dispute regarding contract interpretation of asbestos abatement and remediation agreement
- Assessment against deferral notes issued in Stock Purchase Agreement due to burden of hazardous waste [methylene chloride, hexavalent chromium, arsenic] clean-up
- Acceleration damages claim by general contractor against precast concrete subcontractor for failure to keep contract schedule
- Dispute between owner of $40 million home and New York interior design firm
- Dispute between hospital and doctor over purchase option and appraised value of medical practice
- Sexual harassment, constructive discharge and battery claims by assembly line specialty worker
Honors, Memberships, and Professional Activities
- Adjunct Professor, Cornell Law School, “Negotiation and Mediation”, 1999-2004;2006
- Board of Governors, International Academy of Mediators
- Fellow, American College of Civil Trial Mediators
- Member, College of Commercial Arbitrators
- Member, American Bar Association, Section of Dispute Resolution
- Member, Pennsylvania Bar Association, Section of Dispute Resolution
- Member, Employment Advisory Regional Committee and National Employment ADR Task Force, 1998-2004
- Frequent speaker and trainer on ADR-related topics
- Author of numerous ADR-related articles including: “Think Outside the Box: Use Mediation Proactively”, Corporate Counsel Magazine January 2005;“Seven Common Myths and Three False Truths About ADR” CPR Conference Journal Spring 2004; “Providing Alternatives to Litigation”, WomensBiz October 2004;“Pros and Cons of ADR – Practice Considerations”, Dispute Resolution Journal, Summer 1997; “Mediator Credentialing”, Arbitration & Mediation, Spring 1997
Background and Education
- Arbitrator & Mediator, JAMS, Inc., 1995-2000;Opened Philadelphia Office, 2004-May 2006
- Of Counsel, Bazelon ,Less & Feldman, Philadelphia, PA; 1998-1995
- Partner, Meserve, Mumper & Hughes, Los Angeles, CA; 1979-1983
- Partner, Lande, Rolston & Meyer, Beverly Hills, CA; 1983-1988
- Hearing Examiner, Los Angeles Police Commission; 1979-1988
- Mediator, New York Metropolitan Transit Authority (named in construction contract), 1989
- Mediator, American Intermediation Service, Inc., 1986-1990
- Mediator, Judicate, Inc., 1990-1994
- Member, Pennsylvania, Idaho and California Bars
- J.D., Cornell Law School, 1974; (E.D.P. Carey Writing Award; Moot Court Board)
- B.A., Barnard College, 1966