Lawyer Monthly Legal Awards 2022 21 USA Would you say that your work on the Detroit bankruptcy case ranked among your career highlights to date? Yes, it was very, very satisfying to help resolve such an important dispute for my city, my region and my state. But I would also count serving as Chief Judge of my court for more than seven years; I am very proud of what my colleagues and I accomplished during my tenure as Chief Judge. During my tenure on the court, I also had a number of very challenging cases. I tried the first post-9/11 terrorism case, I had one of the earliest cases involving physician-assisted suicide, I had one of the earliest cases involving partial-birth abortion, and many other high-profile cases. I am proud to have come to what I think was a fair resolution of those cases while on the court. Finally, I am very proud of having opened the Detroit office for JAMS. We have been up and thriving for six years now. Can you tell us about some of the cases that you are working on right now? I am currently doing a neutral evaluation for a plaintiff’s class in a class action which involves one of the largest Ponzi schemes in history, and I am helping the plaintiffs strategise and present their case. I am mediating a very large race and age discrimination class action. I am mediating a longstanding dispute over water and sewer charges between the state of Michigan, the largest regional water and sewer authority in the state, and one of our poorest municipalities. I am also working on several very large and complex patent and trade secret cases and, as I say, I am doing the claims allocation for the settlement in the University of Michigan sex abuse case. On a more personal level, how would you measure your success in the work that you undertake? I measure my success by adding value to the parties I am working with, whether that is helping the parties to find a consensual resolution in a difficult case by way of mediation or helping the parties to focus and strategise their cases more effectively by doing a neutral evaluation for them or coming to a just result in an arbitration. I am currently working on a very large arbitration dispute, though it is confidential. I enjoy being an arbitrator because it is sort of like being a judge; you are making decisions and rendering a judgement. Can you share anything about what this award means to you and what the future holds for JAMS? First, let me just say that I am very proud and humbled to be recognised by this very prestigious award, and I am hoping to continue to help JAMS roll out our practice throughout the US and internationally by both the work that I do and through my role on the board of directors with some of my colleagues from around the country. Judge Rosen during a Mediation...
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