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Herbert J. Stern

Herbert J. Stern is the founding member of the law firm Stern Kilcullen & Rufolo. He holds a B.A. from Hobart College and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, along with five honorary degrees.

Stern’s career includes serving as an Assistant District Attorney in the Homicide Bureau of New York County. He was the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 1971 to 1974, during which time he prosecuted the mayors of Newark, Jersey City, and Atlantic City. He was appointed as a United States District Judge in the District of New Jersey, serving from 1974 to 1987, and also served as the United States Judge for Berlin in 1979.

Stephen A. Saltzburg

Stephen A. Saltzburg is the Wallace and Beverley Woodbury University Professor of Law and director of the Masters Program in Litigation and Dispute Resolution at George Washington University Law School.

Professor Saltzburg joined the faculty at George Washington University in 1990, having previously taught at the University of Virginia School of Law since 1972. In 1996, he established the master’s program in Litigation and Dispute Resolution at GW, and in 2004, he was named Wallace and Beverley Woodbury University Professor of Law.

He has served as reporter for and a member of the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and as a member of the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Evidence. He was the reporter for the Civil Justice Reform Act Committee for the District of Columbia District Court before assuming its chairmanship. Professor Saltzburg has also acted as a special master in two class action cases in the District of Columbia District Court and continues to serve as a mediator for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. He has mediated various disputes involving public agencies and private litigants, served as a sole arbitrator, panel chair, and panel member in domestic arbitrations, and as an arbitrator for the International Chamber of Commerce.

Professor Saltzburg’s public service includes his role as associate independent counsel in the Iran-Contra investigation, deputy assistant attorney general in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and the Attorney General’s ex-officio representative on the U.S. Sentencing Commission. He also directed the Tax Refund Fraud Task Force, appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury. He is currently a council member in the ABA Litigation Section and a member of the ABA House of Delegates from the Criminal Justice Section. He was appointed to the ABA’s Task Force on Terrorism and the Law and to the Task Force on Gatekeeper Regulation and the Professional in 2001, and to the President’s Advisory Group on Citizen Detention and Enemy Combatant Issues in 2002. In 2001, he was appointed co-chair of the Task Force on the Selection of Lead Counsel in Class Actions by Chief Judge Edward R. Becker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit; the task force published its final report in 2002.

Saltzburg is the author of numerous books and articles on evidence, procedure, and litigation.

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