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Paul A. Rowe is chairman of the firm and chair of its Litigation Department. Mr. Rowe has served a broad range of individual and institutional clients in state and federal courts throughout the country for 40 years. He has been lead counsel in a myriad of diverse and prominent matters including trial of one of the largest antitrust cases in New Jersey and the rehabilitation of Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, where he was lead trial counsel for the general creditors. He has tried numerous commercial cases of all sorts, including brokerage commission cases, construction cases, partnership and corporate dissolution, stock fraud cases, complex matrimonial cases and chancery cases of all types. Mr. Rowe is the author of the comprehensive treatise, New Jersey Business Litigation, published in 2000, and is also co-author of the standard textbook for chancery litigation in New Jersey entitled Guidebook to Chancery Practice in New Jersey. Mr. Rowe is a past president of the Essex County Bar Association and a member of the New Jersey State and American Bar Associations. Mr. Rowe has also served as president of the Legal Services Foundation of Essex County (1997-1999) and is a trustee of the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. Mr. Rowe was the 1993 recipient of the Trial Bar Award of the Trial Attorneys of New Jersey. He is listed in Chambers USA - America’s Leading Business Lawyers 2005-2006 guide as a leading individual in the Litigation practice area, as well as in The Best Lawyers in America in the Bet-the-Company Litigation, Appellate Law, Business Litigation and Family Law categories. He is also listed in the Law Dragon 3000 Directory of Leading Lawyers, which represents 1% of the litigation population, in the category of commercial litigation. Mr. Rowe is a 1958 graduate of Tufts College and a 1961 graduate of Columbia Law School. He was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1961 and the New Jersey Bar in 1962. He is admitted in the U.S. District Court of New Jersey, the U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. He is also admitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals, Third and Sixth Circuits and the U.S. Tax Court. | 