Judith Meyer

Judith P. Meyer, Esq. 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