Joseph A. Catania Jr.

Experience:

Over 25 years experience as a trial attorney.Trial practice is devoted to construction, commercial, corporate, partnership, professional malpractice (attorney, physician, accountant, engineer/architect) and employment law (discrimination, Americans with Disabilities Act, etc.) litigation. While, in the past, a significant portion of the trial work was concentrated in the areas of personal injury, over the past 15 years the emphasis has been in the commercial construction and non-personal injury tort practice.

Those experiences, together with my work with the AAA has made me intimately familiar with the mediation process, not only from the perspective of the mediator, but of the litigants' counsel, as well.

Previous experience includes two years as production manager for a food manufacturing firm with over 40 employees and a distribution of over 4 million pounds of product from New Jersey to the Canadian border.

Currently practices in state courts in Orange, Columbia, Green, Dutchess, Ulster, Sullivan and Westchester Counties and in the Northern and Southern Districts of the Federal Court System.

Representative Cases

Handled as a Mediator: Major construction relating to site work, utility construction; homeowner contract and warranty construction claims; corporate and partnership dissolution and valuation of entities; multi-party product liability claims, construction claims and business tort claims.

Handled as an Arbitrator: Commercial, contract, partnership and shareholder disputes; large and small construction claims; employment contract disputes.

Multi-Party Dispute

Resolution Experience: Multi-party products and motor vehicle cases.

Alternate Dispute

Resolution Experience: Over 25 years representing clients in arbitration and mediation and over 20 years as an AAA neutral on construction and commercial panels.

Resolution Training: AAA Construction Industry Arbitration Training, 05/98; AAA Advanced Case Management Training, White Plains, NY, 3/01; AAA Arbitrator Update Training, 2003; extensive study of mediation literature, texts and papers.