Extensive Experience As Family Law, Divorce And Business Law Attorneys
Biography
John A. Pappalardo is a Partner in the Pappalardo Law Group, PLLC, with offices in White Plains, New York and Roseland, New Jersey. The firm is involved in arbitration, mediation, and litigation. John has been an active Arbitrator, Mediator, and litigation attorney for 39 years.
John has extensive experience in alternate dispute resolution (ADR), having served as an arbitrator and mediator in over 2,000 domestic and international matters. Throughout his career, John has presided over a broad range of complex domestic and international disputes involving: public works construction and development contracts; private construction and development contracts; franchise law; commercial law; industrial projects; real estate valuations; insurance law; legal fee disputes; sustainable energy development; federal securities law; matrimonial law; and employment and labor law.
John is heavily involved in commercial and construction law matters involving both public and private projects ranging in value from $50,000 to $25 million. John’s ADR portfolio includes: a dispute between an LPGA certified golf club and general contractor; disputes between land owners and sustainable energy construction contractors involving a multi-million dollar solar farms; multi-million dollar New York City excavation and water drainage projects; car wash installation projects; school district disputes with contractors and architects; disputes involving rollercoaster and amusement projects; multi-legged disputes between owners, architects, sureties, and prime contractors on public works contracts; partnership dissolutions in the fields of medicine, law, international finance; contractor and homeowner disputes ranging from cosmetic upgrades to new home constructions; as well as several other moderate to highly significant matters between contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, sureties, homeowners, architects, municipalities, and mid-to-large sized businesses.
John has also represented clients against contractors and contractors against clients in construction and commercial litigation. He has represented a significant number of homeowners and homebuilders in litigation associated with the construction of new homes and the renovations and expansion of existing homes.
John is on the American Arbitration Association (AAA), CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution, FINRA, Second Department Special Masters, National Arbitration and Mediation (NAM), Arbitration Ireland Association panels, as well as the Presumptive ADR panels for the counties of Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Orange, Rockland, Bronx, Kings and New York. He has taught Arbitration and Mediation programs and has spoken for the AAA, New York State Bar Association, Westchester County Bar Association, and National Business Institute.
John’s matrimonial practice handles moderate to very complex litigation involving matrimonial and family law cases. He also has a private matrimonial mediation practice, is certified in matrimonial collaborative law, and sits as a matrimonial arbitrator. He has served as a Guardian Ad Litem and an Attorney for the Child(ren) in many matrimonial proceedings. His work as an Attorney for the Chil(ren) for 35 years included representing children where their rights have been implicated.
John is a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and the International Association of Matrimonial Lawyers. He has been recognized as a top attorney by SuperLawyers. He is a member of the American Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, Westchester Bar Association and their Family Law and Alternative Dispute Resolutions subsections. He is a referral attorney for the State Department for Missing and Exploited Children, representing parents who have had their children abducted. John is currently an Officer with the Westchester County Bar Association and is a member of the Executive Committee.
John teaches ADR as an Adjunct Professor at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, and Arbitration and Mediation as a visiting Professor at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University. He also currently serves his community as a Part-Time Judge.
John graduated from Ithaca College in 1983 with a B.A. degree and received his J.D. in 1986 from The New England Law School.
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Education
- New England Law, Boston, Massachusetts
- J.D. - 1986
- Ithaca College
- B.A. - 1983
Bar Admissions
- Massachusetts, 1986
- New York, 1987
- New Jersey, 1989
- U.S. District Court Southern District of New York
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York
- U.S. District Court District of New Jersey
- U.S. Supreme Court
Professional Associations
- New York State Bar Association, Alternate Dispute Resolution Subsection
- Westchester County Bar Association, Alternate Dispute Resolution Subsection
- American Arbitration Association
- American Bar Association, Alternative Dispute Resolution Subsection
- International Academy of Family Lawyers
- American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers
- Former Paralegal Advisory Committee at Berkeley College
- Westchester County Civil Arbitration Panel
- United States Bankruptcy Court Mediation Panel
Published Works
- John A. Pappalardo and Nicole Carpinteri, Mediation and the Role of the Attorney for the Children, Westchester Lawyer, WCBA, December 2024.
- John A. Pappalardo and Samantha A. Rescigno. Advocacy in the Pre-Trial Stages, The Advocate’s Advantage Blog, Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, January 2023
- John A. Pappalardo, with Cassidy Allison and Samantha A. Mumola. We All Need Somebody to Lean On: Using the Law to Nurture Our Children, Beginning with Third-Party Visitation, Pace Law Review Vol. 39, No. 2, Fall, 2019
- John A. Pappalardo and Elidi B. Lara. The Role of the Guardian Ad Litem in Parental Alienation Cases, Westchester Bar Journal Vol. 44, No. I, Fall, 2019
- John A. Pappalardo and Emily Rawdon. The Unanswered Questions Lingering Among Family Lawyers Two Years Following the Supreme Court’s Ruling That Same Sex Couples May Not Be Deprived the Right to Marry, Westchester Bar Journal, Vol. 42, No. 1, P. 43 , 2017
- John A. Pappalardo. Revisiting Arbitration Within Domestic Relations, Westchester Bar Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 12, P.8, 2017
- John A. Pappalardo, Judith E. Murphy, and Kristen L. Woodford. Revisiting ADR Within Domestic Relations Law, Westchester County Bar Association Newsletter, 2009
- John A. Pappalardo. Domestic Violence and Orders of Protection, Westchester County Bar Association Newsletter, 2010
- John A. Pappalardo. New York State's Refusal to Promote Visitation Between Foster Care Children and Their Extended Family, Westchester Bar Journal, 1996