Madison Square Boys & Girls Club

Representation of the Official Committee of Childhood Sexual Abuse Survivors in the chapter 11 case of Madison Square Boys & Girls Club in the Southern District of New York. Madison is a nonprofit company founded over 100 years that provides the youth in New York City’s most underserved communities with educational, recreational, and mentorship services at six clubhouses in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Harlem. Madison was subject to approximately 150 childhood sexual-abuse claims involving individuals employed by or volunteering at Madison from as early as 1940s through the 1980s. Since the committee’s appointment, the firm has been engaged in mediation in an attempt to reach a global resolution regarding the claims against Madison. If successful, the firm will work with Madison to formulate a chapter 11 plan that will serve as the platform to make distributions to the childhood sexual-abuse victims.