The Honorable Arthur F. Engoron (Ret.) brings decades of judicial experience to his work as an arbitrator and mediator, having presided over a wide spectrum of civil matters in New York’s trial courts. He was elected to the Civil Court of the City of New York in 2002 and later elected as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County, in 2015. Throughout his judicial career, Justice Engoron has handled complex commercial disputes, personal injury actions, medical malpractice cases, and other high-stakes civil proceedings requiring careful legal analysis, active case management, and balanced judgment.

As a Supreme Court Justice, he regularly presided over settlement conferences, judicially supervised mediations, and played an active role in facilitating resolution. In that capacity, he helped settle personal injury cases, commercial cases, and medical malpractice cases, including several CPLR Article 78 medical license revocation matters. Judge Engoron’s commercial experience includes presiding over a wide range of complex business disputes, including breach of contract claims involving non-payment and non-conforming goods, breach of fiduciary duty, construction defect matters, and cooperative and condominium disputes. His docket has also encompassed corporate and partnership dissolutions, foreclosures, insurance and reinsurance coverage disputes, lease interpretation issues, legal fee disputes, rent non-payment matters, and cases involving ownership rights in both real and personal property, as well as shareholder agreement disputes. Judge Engoron also has significant experience in employment law, including a construction dispute dealing with prevailing wage by more than twelve plaintiffs. Further employment matters include negligent hiring, wage and hour law, wrongful termination, discrimination, and employee classification.

Judge Engoron previously served on the Civil Court of the City of New York from 2003 through 2012, where he presided over a high-volume docket and developed extensive familiarity with the procedural and substantive challenges faced by litigants in contested matters. From 2013 to 2015, he was designated to serve as an Acting Justice of the Supreme Court, New York County, where he handled more complex cases involving significant factual records and legal issues. In these roles, Justice Engoron routinely addressed discovery disputes, dispositive motions, evidentiary questions, and settlement dynamics, gaining insight into how cases evolve from filing through resolution. His judicial work required balancing efficiency with fairness and applying legal standards consistently while remaining attentive to the practical realities confronting parties and counsel.

Before joining the bench, Judge Engoron practiced law in New York and served as a principal law clerk to a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York from 1991 to 2002. In that role, he worked extensively on motion practice, legal research, opinion drafting, and appellate matters, developing a comprehensive understanding of judicial reasoning and decision-making at both the trial and appellate levels. This experience provided him with a detailed perspective on how courts evaluate arguments, assess credibility, and resolve complex legal questions.

Justice Engoron’s combined background as a practitioner, long-serving law clerk, and elected trial court judge informs his work as a neutral. He approaches arbitration and mediation with a strong command of procedure, evidentiary standards, and case evaluation, as well as an appreciation for the strategic considerations that influence litigation and settlement. In addition to his judicial service, Justice Engoron has remained active in professional and civic organizations and has contributed to legal scholarship through published works addressing civil procedure and personal injury law.

Judge Engoron is available to arbitrate and mediate cases throughout New York.