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 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. For the past twenty years Mr. Carrow has limited his criminal practice primarily to white collar crime and extradition. Parenthetically, neither of Mr. Carrow's clients in the above referenced murder cases were convicted.

Mr. Carrow has been appointed on several occasions as a consultant to the criminal law and litigation sections of The State Bar of California, served as a delegate to represent the San Francisco Bar Association at State Bar of California conventions and has maintained Martindale-Hubbell's highest rating (AV) since 1979. 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 engaged in numerous settlement conferences. 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 to his professional involvements, Mr. Carrow has remained active in his community. Representative examples are his past service as mayor of Novato, California, participation as a founding director of the Novato Boy's and Girl's Club and of The Marin Community Food Bank and his membership on the California Democratic State Central Committee.

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