Antionette N. Luciano serves as General Counsel at RTR, where she oversees all legal matters impacting the company’s operations. Since joining RTR in 2021, she has played a key role in guiding executive leadership on risk management, contract negotiation, litigation strategy, and compliance. Her extensive experience in debt collection, consumer financial services, creditors’ rights, and corporate law ensures that RTR’s practices meet the highest ethical and professional standards.
Known for her pragmatic approach and in-depth knowledge of the collections industry, Ms. Luciano plays a pivotal role in maintaining RTR’s reputation for integrity, results-driven performance, and commitment to its motto: “Resolution with Respect.”
Ms. Luciano earned her Bachelor’s degree in Business Management with a minor in Pre-Law from Pace University, graduating summa cum laude in 2013. Her Honors Thesis, “Influence of Attorneys’ Attributes and Behaviors on the Jury’s Verdict,” was a finalist for Best Thesis and was published. She went on to earn her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Pace University School of Law in 2016, where she served as Articles Editor for the Pace International Law Review. She is admitted to practice law in New York and New Jersey.
Before joining RTR, Ms. Luciano was an associate at a New York law firm specializing in insurance defense and accident litigation, handling cases in premises liability, commercial litigation, insurance coverage, employment law, and construction litigation. She also worked at a regional firm representing the mortgage banking industry, managing the foreclosure department and handling title claims and creditors’ rights litigation.
Ms. Luciano began her legal career long before law school, having worked in law firms since the age of sixteen. Her early experience as a paralegal and attorney assistant at a New Jersey debt collection law firm laid the foundation for her deep knowledge of the legal field and collection industry. During law school, she clerked for a New York law firm specializing in corporate law, land use, real estate, and estate planning, and she interned with the Superior Court of New Jersey, Chancery Division (General Equity), where she conducted legal research and prepared bench memoranda on foreclosure and mortgage reformation issues.