Born in Marshall, Minnesota, Mr. Carrow attended the University of Colorado, the University of Minnesota, from which he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree, and the University of Minnesota Law School, where he served on the Board of Editors of the Minnesota Law Review. He transferred to Stanford University Law School for his last year of study and was awarded a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from that institution in 1958. Mr. Carrow succeeded in obtaining both his Bachelor of Arts degree and his Doctorate in Law in six years, without attending summer university sessions.

Mr. Carrow has divided his time between the United States and England since his call to the English bar by the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, one of the four Inns of Court, in 1981. His practice encompasses: domestic and international civil, commercial and business litigation and arbitration, including contract, international trade and tortious liability, inclusive of substantial personal injury and wrongful death claims. Mr. Carrow has had particularly extensive experience in construction litigation, mediation and arbitration, serving as an advocate as well as mediator and arbitrator. Although he enjoyed success in the practice of the general criminal law early in his career, the experience of defending two prison related murder cases, virtually back-to-back, in the mid-seventies, requiring over two years trial time, caused Mr. Carrow, upon reflection, to change his practice emphasis.

Mr. Carrow has been appointed on several occasions as a consultant to the criminal law and litigation sections of The State Bar of California and has maintained Martindale-Hubbell's highest rating (AV) since 1979. Martindale-Hubbell has published what is unquestionably the most reliable lawyer rating directory in the United States since 1868. It contains approximately 900,000 attorney and firm entries. He is also listed in The Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, published by Martindale-Hubbell, which consists of approximately three percent of the United States practicing bar.

Mr. Carrow has for a number of years served as a judge pro tempore of the California Superior Court, California's highest trial court and, in that capacity, has presided over more than twenty-five trials and participated in numerous settlement conferences.