Caroline Antonacci, Esq. Email & Phone Number

Caroline Antonacci, Esq. has more than 20 years of dispute resolution experience as a mediator, arbitrator, and special master. A former appellate attorney and litigator, Ms. Antonacci has extensive investigative and report writing experience and has assisted in the drafting of hundreds of opinions. She is well known and respected by thousands of practitioners in the New York legal community.Since joining JAMS, Ms. Antonacci has mediated and arbitrated a wide-range of complex disputes including business/commercial, real property, employment, construction, family law/matrimonial, intellectual property, insurance and personal injury matters. An experienced arbitrator, she is regularly engaged to sit on tripartite panels. She is uniquely qualified to provide intelligent, practical, and thorough evaluations as part of a thoughtful, balanced, and confidential resolution process.Throughout her career, Ms. Antonacci has cultivated considerable experience handling highly sensitive matters, including those involving sexual misconduct and abuse. She has completed training programs in SafeSport, Title IX, sexual harassment, and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion topics.Prior to joining JAMS, Ms. Antonacci served as the full-time Director and Special Master for the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department's Special Masters Mediation Program, where she settled thousands of complex and high value cases in a wide range of practice areas over nearly two decades.Preceding her service as Director and Special Master, Ms. Antonacci served as a Principal Court Attorney at the First Department for 6 years. Prior to her career in the Appellate Division, Ms. Antonacci served as Deputy Appellate Counsel for the New York State Organized Crime Task Force, as Assistant Deputy Attorney General for the New York State Department of Law Antitrust Bureau, as an Examining Attorney for the New York City Department of Investigation and as a Special Assistant US Attorney for the Southern District of New York with Rudolph Giuliani.Ms. Antonacci is known for her conscientiousness, tenacity and creativity in achieving both mediation settlements and managing an efficient and reliable arbitration process. She is well-regarded for her ability to effectively work with contentious and adverse interests.

Listed skills include Alternative Dispute Resolution, Appellate Practice, Arbitration, Business/Commercial, and 17 others.