Jed Melnick
Jed D. Melnick, Esq. serves as a Mediator and Special Master in complex business litigation pending throughout the United States and the world. He is highly respected for his extraordinary ability to successfully resolve multi-party complex disputes with patience, persistence, and creativity, especially when they involve highly sensitive issues and difficult parties. Indeed, since becoming a full-time mediator in 2005, Jed has resolved over one thousand disputes, with an aggregate value in the billions of dollars.
Among numerous recognitions, Jed was ranked by Chambers and Partners on the National Mediators list in 2023 and 2024. Chambers’ reviewers have noted that Jed, “a standout star,” is “one of the preeminent mediators for large complex disputes.” He has been described as a mediator who is “creative, collaborative, thoughtful” and who “never gives up.” He has twice been awarded the distinction of ADR Champion by The National Law Journal, an award bestowed on practitioners “in honor of their passion, perseverance, and success in alternative dispute resolution.” He has also been invited to speak about “Mediation Strategies for Judges” as the closing presenter at the annual Delaware Judiciary Retreat.
Jed often utilizes a team approach to mediation, which allows him to maintain a practice with the highest level of responsiveness, performance, and results. As part of his team approach, and when appropriate, he relies on respected neutral professionals to complement him and assist the involved parties by providing efficient and effective feedback on intricate accounting, insurance, economic, appraisal and environmental issues.
His detailed list of representative matters is included below, but several of Jed’s more high-profile matters include much of the litigation related to the Adelphia Communications Corporation and Lehman Brothers bankruptcies, the British Petroleum Securities Litigation, and the Auto Parts Antitrust Litigation. He has successfully mediated creditor claims against Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP’s former chairman in the law firm’s Chapter 11 filing. He was also appointed by Judge Lewis Kaplan of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York to serve as a mediator for the Lehman ADR Derivative Contract Program.
Jed was also responsible for the successful mediation of a high-profile pro bono case between the Disability Rights Advocates and the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission. He guided the parties to a historic settlement which raised the number of handicap accessible taxi cabs from fewer than 5% of the fleet to 50% of the fleet by 2020.