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Freda Wolfson will lead law firm's alternative dispute resolution groupWolfson spent 36 years in the judiciary(Reuters) - Freda Wolfson, who retired this week as chief judge of the US District Court for the District of New Jersey, has joined law firm Lowenstein Sandler, the firm said Wednesday.Wolfson heads to the New Jersey-founded national law firm after 36 years on the federal bench. She will lead Lowenstein Sandler's alternative dispute resolution group and plans to handle commercial litigation matters and take on special master appointments in multidistrict litigations.She was nominated to the New Jersey district court in 2002 and became chief judge in 2019. She previously served as a US magistrate judge, and practiced at what is now Lowenstein Sandler earlier in her career.The firm, which has about 350 lawyers, in…