Hon. Guy James Mangano (Ret.) joined JAMS' New York office following over 40 years of public service. Judge Mangano brings to the dispute resolution practice 10 years as Presiding Justice of the Appellate Division, Second Department, 10 years as an Associate Justice, 10 years as a Trial Justice, 7 years as a New York Legislator, and 10 years as a private practitioner.
ADR Experience and Qualifications
- As a JAMS neutral, Judge Mangano has mediated and arbitrated cases involving the following issues:
- Business/commercial
- Class/Mass action
- Contractual interpretation
- Discrimination in the work place
- Employment
- Entertainment/Intellectual property
- Insurance coverage
- Personal injury
- Professional liability
Representative Matters
- Mediated disputes between corporate entities involving:
- Agreements with affiliates
- Effect of employee fraudulent acts on contract provisions, concerning whether there was authority, and if so, whether actual or apparent
- Partnership dissolutions, buy out agreements, etc.
- Arbitrated and mediated several property damage disputes
- Mediated a class action matter involving an international airline over the cancellation of flights leaving passengers in multiple countries stranded
- Mediated an intellectual property matter involving two entertainment companies over the rights to manufacturing films
- Mediated insurance disputes between two prominent insurance companies with regards to claims involving a military government contract in Europe. Part of the successfully settled dispute was in determining which laws applied to which claims to be paid due to the international nature of the claims
- Successfully mediated all types of personal injury cases
- Rendered an opinion letter interpreting the provision of Welfare Fund contracts as to whether Trustees accused of wrongdoing were entitled to reimbursement for legal fees
- The effect of termination of a major hospital waste incinerator on the original contract, leasing agreements, bankruptcy assignment agreement, and royalty agreement
- Determine issues in a complex professional malpractice as to whether improper therapy resulted in two additional knee replacement operations or whether it was caused by other or concurrent causes
- Arbitrated whether charges by hotel vendors for a union convention were justified or not, and the amount due