Neil Zola

As Founder Emeritus of JND Legal Administration, Neil is a trusted voice in the legal administration field, bringing 35 years of class action experience — the last 25 of them dedicated to legal administration. He is one of the most respected leaders in the industry.

Neil has worked on some of the largest legal administration projects in our country's history, including the $10 billion BP Deepwater Horizon Settlement, the $6.15 billion WorldCom Securities Litigation, the $3.05 billion Visa/Mastercard Antitrust Litigation, the $2.67 billion Blue Cross Blue Shield Settlement, the $1.5 billion Anthropic Copyright Settlement, the $1 billion National Association of Realtors Antitrust Settlement, the $586 million IPO Securities Litigation, the $512 million Auction Houses Antitrust Litigation, the $300 million Loblaw Remediation Program, and the $215 million USC Women's Health Center Settlement, among thousands of other matters. For the BP Deepwater Horizon Settlement, Neil and his partner Jennifer Keough launched and oversaw the 90,000 square-foot Hammond, Louisiana processing center, which was called the Gold Standard of the administration program by Special Master Patrick Juneau.

Neil has testified in courts throughout the country on class action settlement matters and has written numerous articles on the subject. He is sought after to consult on a wide range of legal administration and class action issues, and has been featured on Law.com, Law360, and USA Weekly.

Neil began his career in 1990 at Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP, a boutique securities litigation firm in New York City, where he handled complex litigation matters and made partner in 1997. In 2000 Neil joined The Garden City Group where he served as its first ever General Counsel before being promoted to Chief Operating Officer and later President in 2006, a position he held until the end of 2015. In 2016, he co-founded JND with Jennifer Keough and David Isaac, helping transform the company from a start-up into one of the leading administration firms in the country.

Neil earned his J.D. from UCLA School of Law, where he has served on the board of the Alumni Association and has been a featured speaker in their Distinguished Alumni Lecturer Series. He received his B.A., cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania.