NEW YORK, Sept. 30, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Epiq, a worldwide technology-enabled companies chief to the authorized business and firms, introduced at present the promotion of Sylvius von Saucken to General Manager of its Mass Tort Solutions follow.
von Saucken, who has been within the mass tort business since 2005, has a longtime historical past of success within the authorized companies business. Most lately, he oversaw technique and advisory companies for Epiq’s mass tort operations and shopper service groups, consulting with purchasers about greatest practices in mass tort settlements. von Saucken has performed a key position within the strategic and tactical steerage of Epiq’s mass tort business and development, serving as a senior danger supervisor in reviewing processes and procedures, and main change administration initiatives.
“I continue to be amazed by the breadth and depth of the expertise and overall capability across our entire team,” stated Christine Landry, president of Epiq’s Class Action, Remediation, and Mass Tort Solutions Division. “Sylvius is exceptionally knowledgeable and highly respected by our clients, judges, and special masters alike, applying his unique skill sets to help solve the biggest challenges for our clients as he has done for the industry. It gives me great pleasure that we continue to build our leadership team by focusing on our clients, creating opportunities for larger leadership roles, and further enabling our teams to deliver superior service in matters of all types.”
Epiq’s popularity as the worldwide chief in mass tort managed companies and sophistication motion administration has been bolstered via the profitable administration of a few of historical past’s largest and most advanced settlements. von Saucken has personally managed greater than 300 certified settlement funds and has designed 1000’s of settlement settlement protocols and associated cost governance processes over the previous decade, together with verification and claims procedures with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) that has change into the business commonplace.
“Our team is best-in-class and our clients have come to rely on us to build innovative approaches to lien resolution and other payment complication challenges,” von Saucken stated. “We work closely with our clients to design and implement mass tort settlements, following and building upon best practices to help manage qualified settlement funds efficiently and cost-effectively, operationalizing the parties’ settlements to ensure all parties receive the benefit of the bargain. I look forward to building upon the team’s success and continuing our momentum as we lead the way towards a new mass tort settlement paradigm.”
von Saucken has spoken earlier than quite a few state and nationwide bar associations, in addition to judicial conferences on a wide range of matters influencing the settlement continuum. Some of his notable talking engagements embrace the National Crime Victims Seminar, the Academy of Special Needs Planners, the Second Judicial District of the New York State Supreme Court, and the RAND Institute for Justice Policy Symposium. Earlier this 12 months, he served as a moderator for Epiq’s Special Masters Summit and Mass Torts Made Perfect webinar the place he launched the business to the VA’s Office of General Counsel’s Revenue Law Group and its mass tort processes.
Prior to becoming a member of Epiq, von Saucken was a authorities advantages, revenue tax, property, probate, belief, and switch tax legal professional, who represented company and particular person purchasers throughout the nation. He earned his bachelor’s diploma in Diplomacy, Foreign Affairs, and Political Science from Miami University and a J.D. from the Salmon P. Chase College of Law, the place he has served as an adjunct professor, co-teaching programs in Federal Wealth Transfer Taxation and Estate Planning. von Saucken has been an energetic member of the Ohio bar since 1998.
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