Director, Securities Arbitration Clinic and Associate Professor
of Clinical Education. B.A., C.U.N.Y. Queens College; J.D.,
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (Yeshiva University).
Professor Catalano joined the St. John’s faculty in May 2006 as
the Director of the School of Law’s Securities Arbitration
Clinic. Professor Catalano comes to St. John’s with extensive
experience in the securities field. Prior to beginning
her career with UBS Financial Services Inc. (f/k/a PaineWebber
Inc.), she earned her law degree cum laude from Benjamin
N. Cardozo School of Law where she served as Moot Court Board Bench
Memo Editor. Upon graduation, she joined the legal department
at UBS and was appointed Corporate Vice President and Assistant
General Counsel.
She later joined the firm of Davidson & Grannum, LLP, a firm
specializing in representing and counseling corporate and
individual clients in four practice areas: broker-dealer
arbitrations, mediations and litigations; employment law
counseling, EEOC and state agency matters, mediations, arbitrations
and litigations; securities regulatory matters; and commercial
disputes, where she was named Senior Partner. Professor Catalano
has extensive experience representing broker-dealers and brokers in
customer disputes, regulatory investigations, and collection and
employment matters, and has conducted numerous arbitration
hearings, training sessions and seminars. She also serves as
an arbitrator with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
(formerly the National Association of Securities Dealers Inc.)