| Construction Litigation & Arbitration |
| San Francisco Bay Area, Northern California Trial Lawyer |
CARROW, MR. ROBERT DUANE
Trial Lawyer - California & New York
Barrister - England & Wales
Summary Robert D. Carrow, Esq. is an international and domestic construction trial lawyer, who maintains construction law attorney offices in San Francisco and San Rafael, California and construction law barrister chambers in London. His emphasis is on litigation, negotiation, mediation and arbitration of substantial construction claims. He reserves to himself the determination of those transactions that he includes within the category of construction and development litigation, claims and disputes. Mr. Carrow is an experienced and respected construction trial lawyer, skilled in litigation, or negotiated disposition, of construction claims and construction disputes. Mr. Carrow points out his preference, primarily for the sake of the client's pocketbook, of foregoing construction litigation in favor of alternative dispute resolution procedures to resolve resolve construction and development disputes and claims. He is one of very few lawyers admitted to practice construction law both as an attorney in the United States (California & New York) and as a barrister in England and Wales.
Construction & Development Litigation & Arbitration Robert D. Carrow, an experienced and well recognized construction lawyer, 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. Mr. Carrow is one of very few lawyers who are dually licensed to practice before the courts of both jurisdictions.
A substantial part of his practice consists of construction related disputes including:
Representation of Contractors Before Public Agencies,
Including Licensing & Bid Disputes;
Involving the Contractor;
Architects & Designers;
Involving Subcontractors;
Involving Material persons;
Against the Contractor and/or Developer;
Contractor, Subcontractor and/or Owner;
Claims;Contentious construction matters have made up a substantial part of Mr. Carrow's 37 years of the practice of law. He has successfully litigated or negotiated settlement of numerous complex construction disputes, both private and public in nature, and has represented directors, officers and employees of the client business at the administrative, trial and appellate levels of both the state and federal judicial systems. His practice is limited to construction claims and disputes of a substantial nature.
Recognizing the ever expanding cost of civil litigation, and particularly construction litigation, Mr. Carrow has been increasingly active in the Alternative Dispute Resolution ("ADR") process as it applies to business, including the construction industry. 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 arbitrator and as a settlement conference and trial pro tempore judge for the Superior Court of California.
On occasion, the facts surrounding the construction dispute involve charges of fraud and deceit, or other wrongful acts, of a criminal nature. Mr. Carrow has had considerable and successful experience in defending against such allegations. He limits his criminal defense involvements, however, to matters which qualify in a general sense as "white collar crime." Mr. Carrow is willing to provide his definition of the term to any interested listener.
Mr. Carrow's expertise, and his qualification to attend to the construction industry 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.
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 has, for a number of years, served as a judge pro tempore of the California Superior Courts and has presided as judge 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.
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 construction related matters with which Mr. Carrow has been involved are available upon request.
In addition to the above-mentioned organizations, Mr. Carrow is also a member of the International, American, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Marin County Bar Associations; The Consumer Attorneys of California; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; The Ontario Trial Lawyers Association (Canada); INCA - International Consultants Association (Paris); The State Bar of California; The Midland-Oxford Circuit (U.K.); Associate, Center for International Legal Studies (Austria); The Inns of Court Society in California (charter director); Phi Delta Phi; The British/American Chamber of Commerce and he holds lifetime membership in The Wig and Pen Club (London). He is a member of the London barrister chambers of Mr. David Barnard and serves of counsel to the San Francisco law firm of Goldstein & Musto.
