Business litigation of a civil nature has constituted a considerable part of Mr. Carrow's practice. He has successfully litigated complex business disputes and has represented foreign and domestic directors, officers and employees of the client business at the administrative, trial and appellate levels of both the state and federal judicial systems.

Representative of Mr. Carrow's willingness to take on difficult causes, in a case recently completed, Mr. Carrow represented a corporate real estate broker and the company's agent, in a complex action in which plaintiff developer sought approximately fifty million dollars in compensatory damages, and a like amount in punitive damages from his own real estate agents, based on the agents' alleged breach of their fiduciary duties to plaintiff, involving purchase and sale of certain valuable Nevada property. Plaintiff contended that his agents conspired with others to sell the property to a third party, after documents required for purchase of the property had been signed by plaintiff and before the escrow on plaintiff's purchase could close.

Plaintiff was represented by one of California's largest law firms, which had over two years to prepare for trial. Pre-trial deposition transcripts alone totalled approximately 4,000 pages. Due to the court's disqualification of the defendants' attorney during the week preceding trial, and the somewhat questionable refusal of the presiding judge to allow any lawyer substituting into the the case for defendants a continuance to prepare for trial, the defendants faced the probability of having to defend themselves at trial.

Mr. Carrow was approached by the defendants who explained their predicament to him. Against the advice of his professional colleagues, Mr. Carrow agreed on the day prior to commencement of trial to assume representation of the the real estate agent defendants. Despite the fact that Mr. Carrow was required to prepare his defense on a day to day basis in the course of trial, after a five week trial the jury found in favor of Mr. Carrow's clients, against plaintiff, and Mr. Carrow's clients were awarded their costs of suit. (See, Grand Land Investment v. Coscan/Stewart, San Francisco Superior Court No. SCV-960340).

Recognizing the ever expanding cost of business litigation, Mr. Carrow has been particularly active in the Alternative Dispute Resolution ("ADR") process as it applies to business, including negotiation, mediation and arbitration. In addition to his experience as an advocate involved in the ADR process, Mr. Carrow has acted as a private arbitrator and as a settlement conference and trial judge pro tempore for the Superior Court of California.

A third area of Mr. Carrow's business law emphasis is prosecution and defense of business torts, including fraud, deceit and other non contractual breaches of a legal duty by a business directly resulting in damages to another. Closely aligned to business torts are many other wrongful acts, including breach of the implied warranty of good faith and fair dealing, which exists in any contractual relationship

A fourth area of emphasis of Mr. Carrow's involvement in business law extends to defense of white collar crime, an area of law with which he has had considerable experience and notable success. Assuming provable culpability, his approach is to initially make an informal effort to resolve the matter on terms satisfactory to the prosecution and his client. Only in the event this effort proves unsuccessful, will the criminal charges be brought to trial, since experience has proven that even if acquitted, the publicity accompanying trial will adversely effect, or even destroy, the involved business, the client's family relationships, and the health, well being and reputation of the client, his family and his associates.

Mr. Carrow's expertise, and his qualification to attend to the business 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.

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.

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 in his capacity as judge pro tempore of the California Superior Court has 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.