Professional Bio
Jennifer Lupo is a distinguished neutral with more than 30 years' experience in complex commercial, employment and insurance matters. She brings a unique perspective to her craft as a neutral because she has sat in each seat at the dispute resolution table, as a civil litigator, as general counsel to private and public companies, and finally, as the neutral. Jennifer is a member of the national commercial and employment arbitration and mediation rosters of the American Arbitration Association (AAA), the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR), and a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) arbitrator. She is also a member of mediation panels of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the United States District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and the Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County, Commercial Division. Ms. Lupo has mediated or arbitrated nearly one thousand cases. Representative case types are business divorce (and shareholder and member disputes), complex commercial, contracts (domestic and international), construction/engineering/architecture, employment, entertainment (music, theater, and film), financial institutions and investments, insurance, information technology, intellectual property, sports (boxing, baseball and football) and telecommunications.
Jennifer is a AAA Higginbotham fellow, a Historical Society of the New York Courts Judith S. Kaye fellow, and a New York Bar Foundation fellow. An active member of several bar and dispute resolution organizations including Arbitral Women, ABA Dispute Resolution Section'(Mediation, Arbitration and Women in Dispute Resolution committees), and a founding member of the NYSBA Dispute Resolution Section, where she is an Executive Committee member and chairs the Section Liaisons committee, NYSBA Commercial and Federal Litigation and Labor and Employment sections. She regularly speaks on issues pertaining to domestic mediation and arbitration and volunteers her time to Monday Night Law (a modest means law clinic of the NYCBAR); BardWorks (mentorship of aspiring law students at Bard College); and mentors’ children in foster care, college, law school and new legal and ADR practitioners.
Ms. Lupo has served as a wing, sole arbitrator, sole mediator, and co-mediator. She is available to mediate or arbitrate nationally in person and via videoconferencing.
Jennifer holds an A.B. from Bard College, an M.A. from SUNY Stony Brook, and a J.D. from Touro Law Center, with honors.
