Robert D. Carrow, is an experienced and well recognized Northern California litigator, who divides his practice between San Francisco and San Rafael, California, where he maintains offices as an attorney, and London, where he practices from chambers as an English barrister.

Although Mr. Carrow's trial practice is not limited to personal injury and wrongful death, those personal injury and wrongful death cases taken on by him typically involve vehicular accidents, attorney malpractice, defective products toxic torts and faulty condition of a premises. Space does not permit a complete listing of all of the circumstances which could result in a finding of personal injury liability. The essential element of most "tort" actions of this sort is negligence, the definition of which varies, to a certain degree, from state to state. The law of negligence is founded on reasonable conduct or reasonable care under all the circumstances of a particular case and rests on the duty of every person to exercise due care in his or her conduct toward others from which injury may result. Negligence is chiefly characterized by inadvertence, thoughtlessness, inattention, and the like, while "wantonness" and "recklessness" is characterized by willfulness. Under the laws of the United States, the latter justifies award of punitive or exemplary damages in certain circumstances, in addition to general damages (i.e., pain & suffering & other non-economic loss) and/or special damages (i.e., "out of pocket" loss, such as medical expense, loss of wage, property damage, and the like) which the plaintiff may be entitled to recover.

Recognizing the ever expanding cost of civil litigation, including personal injury, wrongful death and other tort claims, Mr. Carrow has been increasingly active in the Alternative Dispute Resolution ("ADR") process as it applies to such claims. His ADR efforts have included negotiation, mediation and arbitration. In addition to his experience as an advocate involved in the ADR process, Mr. Carrow has acted as a private mediator, arbitrator and as a settlement conference and trial pro tempore judge of the Superior Court of California, which is the equivalent of the English High Court, i.e., the highest trial court in California.

Mr. Carrow's expertise, and his qualification to attend to the matters discussed above is evidenced by the fact that he has maintained Martindale- Hubbell's highest rating (AV) since 1979. Approximately eleven percent of the United States bar is honored with an AV rating. He is also listed in The Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, published by Martindale-Hubbell, which consists of approximately three percent of the practicing bar.

In addition, Mr. Carrow has been honored by being being chosen for membership in a select group of lawyers known as The International Society of Primerus Law Firms. This a national association of attorneys whose members are chosen based on the conclusion, arrived at after a careful screening process, including inquiry of members of the bench and bar as well as former and existing clients, that they are worthy of belonging to the Society. Invitation is limited to those lawyers who have established themselves in their community to exhibit the highest levels of competence and strict adherence to the ethical principles of the profession.

Born in Marshall, Minnesota in 1934, 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.

In 1981 Mr. Carrow was honored by being called to the English bar by the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple , one of the four Inns of Court.

Mr. Carrow has, in his capacity as a judge pro tempore of the California Superior Court, presided over more than twenty trials. He has, in the past, been designated as a consultant to the litigation and criminal law sections of the State Bar of California and was a program speaker at the 1995 State Bar of California annual convention.

Further biographical information relating to Mr. Carrow is available inter alia, on his web site, in Who's Who in American Law and in Who's Who in the World