Jeanne Schubert Barnum

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Counsel

  Firm Name

  Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Matters: Alternative Dispute Resolution: Ms. Barnum is on the Roster of Arbitrators
  the Roster of Mediators of the American Arbitration Association.
  Ms. Barnum is on the Roster of Mediators for the New Jersey State Court
  is an Arbitrator for the Federal District Court for the District of New Jersey.
  Ms. Barnum has represented parties in American Arbitration Association, Home Owner Warranty, private,
  court-ordered mediations
  arbitrations for more than 20 years.
  Ms. Barnum serves as an arbitrator involving construction, product liability, contract, tort,
  warranty claims with businesses, insurers, government entities,
  individuals as parties.
  Ms. Barnum has mediated construction, commercial, product liability, tort, insurance, contractual, environmental,
  municipal disputes.
  Construction Industry Litigation: Ms. Barnum has represented a national homebuilder in a variety of contract, tort,
  warranty actions in court, before the American Arbitration Association,
  in private dispute resolution settings.
  Ms. Barnum has represented a developer with respect to its rights
  responsibilities under the New Jersey Planned Real Estate Full Disclosure Act, especially with respect to active adult communities.
  Ms. Barnum successfully defended a developer in an appeal by a group of homeowners seeking class certification
  nullification of an arbitration provision in a new home sales agreement.
  Financial Litigation: On behalf of a national commercial mortgage corporation, Ms. Barnum brought a multimillion-dollar foreclosure action against a privately owned care center in New Jersey
  a companion fraudulent transfer action against the shareholders of the corporation that owned the center.
  Ms. Barnum represented three of six executors/trustees of a $20 million estate in successful action to fulfill the terms of the testator's will in the face of opposition mounted by a corporate trustee.
  On behalf of a federally chartered savings
  loan association, Ms. Barnum foreclosed on an apartment building
  had a receiver appointed in state court, sued the guarantor in federal court,
  negotiated a deed in lieu
  subsequent sale of the real property.
  Environmental Litigation
  : Ms. Barnum has successfully defended potentially responsible municipal
  private parties in environmental l
  fill cleanup actions brought by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
  clients faced with Environmental Rights Act claims.