ANTHONY DICAPRIO

Mediator    ADR Consultant     Arbitrator    Attorney

Practice limited primarily to mediation, arbitration, and conflict resolution.  Experience in complex multiparty domestic and international litigation and more than thirty-eight years as a litigator motivates ADR practice and the resolution of disputes efficiently and appropriately through communication, thought and insight. 

Bar and Court Admissions

  • New York State
  • U.S. Supreme Court 
  • New York Federal Court Eastern, Southern, and Northern districts

Education

  • LL.M. Columbia Law School (2000)
  • J.D. Syracuse University Law School (1982) 
  • B.A. St. Lawrence University (1980)

Court Mediation Panels:

EDNY; SDNY; Bronx County Supreme and Surrogate’s Courts; Kings County Supreme Court; New York County Supreme Court and Commercial Division, Richmond County Supreme and Surrogate’s Courts; Rockland County Supreme and Surrogate’s Courts; Westchester County Supreme Court, Commercial Division and Surrogate’s Court; NYCRR Part 146 Certified Mediator in NY Courts

Mediation Experience 

  • Mediated approximately two hundred and fifty cases 
  • Private Mediation Practice  
  • Mediation consultant in multi-party international litigation
  • Mediator trainer, mentor, coach and advisor

ADR Practice Areas (alphabetically)

Contract, Civil Rights, Commercial, Corporate, Disability Access (ADA), Employment, FLSA, International, Medical Malpractice, Motor Vehicle, Multiparty Commercial and Real Estate Development and Construction, Partnership, Personal Injury, Real Estate, Surrogate’s Court (Trusts and Estates), Mediation Consultant

Recent Notable Cases Mediated: 

Litigation by three victims of prisoner sexual abuse against individual and government defendants; class action civil rights racial profiling litigation against one of the Nation’s largest police force; multimillion dollar multiple-party real estate development litigation; business partnership dispute; co-mediated lawsuit by eleven incarcerated and previously incarcerated prisoners against individual and NY State  defendants (mediation involved multiple-sessions over twenty four months); multimillion dollar medical malpractice wrongful death case against a nationally recognized hospital; multimillion multiparty real estate development litigation involving domestic and foreign parties; mediation consultant in multimillion dollar class action against highly visible international NGO and numerous other matters in practice areas noted above ranging from simple to complex cases  

ADR Related Activities   

  • Member of working group on Singapore Convention recommendations to U.S. State Department 
  • Harvard Law School Program on Mediation and Negotiation (Fall 2021)
  • CUNY Law School Adjunct Professor Mediation Lawyering Seminar (Spring 2019, Spring 2020) 
  • CUNY LAW School Mediation Clinic Attorney Supervisor, Instructor and Evaluator in Bronx, Queens, and Manhattan County Civil Courts, Fall 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019
  • New York State Surrogate’s Court Mediator Training Coach, September 2019
  • Co-presenter, 32 Hour CLE-Accredited Basic Mediation Course for Community Mediators and Lawyers  
  • Co-presenter to SDNY ADR Panel Members, CLE course on joint session strategies 
  • New York City Bar Association ADR Committee and Diversity Subcommittee 
  • SDNY Mediation Advisory Committee 
  • New York City Department of Human Rights Conflict Trainer 
  • New York City Bar Association Basic and Advanced Commercial Mediation CLE Evaluator and Coach 
  • SDNY Mediator Evaluator and Trainer 
  • Westchester & Rockland County Mediation Center: mediated, trained, evaluated, and mentored mediators in community disputes, small claims, custody and matrimonial litigation for NYCRR Part 146 certification   
  • New York State Bar Association Three Day Commercial Arbitration course

Notable Cases Litigated 

Salim v Mitchell (WAED): Member of trial and negotiation team in groundbreaking litigation against psychologists who designed and helped implement CIA enhanced interrogation techniques (aka torture) (Settled August 2017); Wiwa v. Shell (NYSD): Member of trial team in seminal international human rights litigation o/b/o Plaintiff-Niger Delta-indigenes against various Royal Dutch Shell entities arising out of Shell’s Niger Delta joint venture with the Nigerian government and co-led negotiations resulting in $15 Million Settlement; AdhikarivKBR (NDTX): Member of trial team in litigation on behalf of Nepalese human trafficking victims (settled against one defendant); Ratha v. Phatthana (CACD): Member of trial team for Cambodian Plaintiffs who were victims of human trafficking; Doe v. ExxonMobil (DCD): Member of trial team on behalf of Acehnese villagers against ExxonMobil for claims of summary execution, torture, sexual assault, arbitrary detention; Doe v. Karadzic (NYSD): Coordinated Plaintiffs’ trial team in action against Bosnian war criminal, Radovan Karadzic, for claims of genocide, torture, summary execution, sexual assault, and humanitarian law violations resulting in $4.5 Billion Plaintiffs’ verdict; Attorney for amicicuriae before U.S. Supreme Court on international and domestic standards of corporate liability for international law violations; FLSA improper classification action against high profile publishing company (settlement terms confidential). Involvement in these cases included preparing the case for and commencing litigation, taking and defending depositions, working with victims and experts on substantive issues and damages, developing and implementing settlement strategies and international travel.