Jacques Catafago

Jacques Catafago brings a rich academic and professional background to The Catafago Law Firm, which has translated into top-notch legal representation at significant cost savings. His jury verdicts have resulted in an average award of $2 million in punitive damages per case. He has written about punitive damages in contract cases in the New York Law Journal.

Mr. Catafago's academic credentials include top honors and summa cum laude from college and law school, a No. 5 law school class ranking, Law Review editorship, top honors in real estate law and civil rights litigation and Phi Beta Kappa.

Mr. Catafago is AV-rated, listed in Martindale-Hubbell's Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers and Who's Who in American Law, previously clerked for the Federal Court Pro Se Office, taught legal research and writing, and servedas a state court mediator. He is licensed in NY, NJ, DC and FL.

A sampling of his impressive track record includes Bolar v. Roche—a staple of patent legislation; a 1996 case in which Mr. Catafago obtained the highest punitive damage jury verdict ever in a Section 1983 civil rights case; a three-week trial for Air China resulting in a $3.8 million jury verdict sustained by the Second Circuit; and a case in which he represented Aaron J. Broder—past president of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association—against attorney F. Lee Bailey in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

A number of Mr. Catafago's federal and state court cases have been reported, one by the United States Supreme Court. Other cases have made news in the New York Law Journal, The New York Times, New Jersey Law Journal, Billboard, New York Daily News and New York Post.