Experienced United States attorney - British barrister - provides consultancy and expert witness testimony for professional colleagues regarding substantive and procedural legal issues involving United States law. Areas of emphasis: business, commercial, construction, other business related civil law, tortious liability, white collar crime, extradition, litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution (arbitration and mediation). Also available for association should the United Kingdom colleague wish to become personally involved pro hac vice in his or her client's American litigation.
CARROW, MR. ROBERT DUANE
Robert D. Carrow, is a uniquely qualified lawyer, admitted to practice before the bar in the United States and as a barrister in England and Wales. Prior to his call to the British bar in 1981, Mr. Carrow was, and remains, a well recognized and respected California litigator. He divides his practise 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.
Mr. Carrow practised law in the United States for over twenty years prior to his being called to the English bar. He has maintained chambers in London on a continuous basis since his call, dividing his time between London and San Francisco.
Martindale-Hubbell, published since 1868, is unquestionably the most prestigious law directory in the United States and Canada. It includes some 900,000 lawyers and law firms in its publications. Based on direct inquiries of the bar and judiciary, Martindale-Hubbell, which covers all fifty states and each province of Canada, issues lawyer ratings where warranted. Since 1979 Mr. Carrow has held an AV rating, the highest issued by Martindale-Hubbell, an honor afforded approximately eleven percent of the bar. He is also listed in The Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, published by Martindale-Hubbell, which is made up of approximately three percent of the 900,000 lawyers and law firms referred to above.
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, based on his prior experience and professional recommendations, was allowed to take the examinations necessary for qualification as a barrister without further formal education, either at university or at the Inns of Court Law School. He passed all the required examinations and was called to the bar by the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple in 1981.
Mr. Carrow has, for a number of years served, and still serves, as a judge pro tempore of the California Superior Court. In that capacity, he has presided over more than twenty-five trials and has served as a judicial settlement conference pro tempore judge on numerous occasions. The California Superior Court is the equivalent of the English High Court, i.e., the highest trial court in California.
Mr. Carrow has served 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.
Mr. Carrow is one of very few dually qualified and dually practising English barristers and United States lawyers. His areas of emphasis are litigation, arbitration and mediation of business, commercial, construction, other business related civil claims, tortious liability and defense of white collar crime and extradition.
Recognizing the ever expanding cost of litigation, Mr. Carrow has been increasingly active in the Alternative Dispute Resolution ("ADR") process. His ADR efforts have included extensive involvement in negotiation, mediation and arbitration, both private and judicial, and has acted in all capacities, i.e., as an advocate, a mediator and as an arbitrator.
Mr. Carrow offers his consultative services directly to clients to the extent allowed by the bar rules and expert witness services to European professional colleagues on the subject of United States law. Further biographical information relating to Mr. Carrow and his qualifications is available inter alia, on his web site, in Who's Who in American Law and in Who's Who in the World.
Questions directed to Mr. Carrow's qualifications may be addressed to him by e-mail, regular mail, telephone or personal interview. References, a listing of representative clients who have allowed use of their names, and the identity of certain of the more interesting white collar crime and extradition related matters with which Mr. Carrow has been involved are available upon request.
