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Paul A. Rowe

Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP
  • Recognized Since:
    1989
  • Recognized in:
    Appellate Practice
    Bet-the-Company Litigation...
  • Law School:
    Columbia University
  • Lawyer Page:
    http://www.greenbaumlaw.com/at...
  • Website:
    http://www.greenbaumlaw.com
  • Firm's Phone Number:
    (732) 549.5600
  • Location:
    Metro Corporate Campus One
    99 Wood Avenue South
    P.O. Box 5600
    Woodbridge, NJ 07095

Mr. Rowe’s practice has been limited exclusively to litigation for nearly five decades.  He has represented a broad range of individual and institutional clients in state and federal courts in New Jersey and other states throughout the country, and has served as lead counsel in a myriad of diverse and prominent business litigations.  He has tried to conclusion numerous cases involving trade secrets, antitrust, stock fraud, real estate brokerage, corporate and partnership disputes, as well as high profile matrimonial matters and chancery cases of all types.   

Mr. Rowe is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, the American Bar Foundation, and the International Academy of Trial Lawyers.  He is a past President of the Essex County Bar Association and a member of the New Jersey State and American Bar Associations.  He is also a Trustee and Past President of the Legal Services Foundation of Essex County.  

Mr. Rowe is the original author of New Jersey Business Litigation, the primary resource on how New Jersey courts have dealt with business issues in litigation, and co-authored the book's 2014 edition. He is also the co-author of Guidebook to Chancery Practice in New Jersey, the standard textbook utilized by judges and equity lawyers throughout the state.

In 2014, Mr. Rowe was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement in Litigation Award from the New Jersey Law Journal.  He was the recipient of the National Judge Learned Hand Award from the Metro New Jersey Region of AJC in 2013, and received the Trial Attorneys of New Jersey Lifetime Achievement Award in 1993.
 

 

 

 

 

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Lawyer Bio

Mr. Rowe’s practice has been limited exclusively to litigation for nearly five decades.  He has represented a broad range of individual and institutional clients in state and federal courts in New Jersey and other states throughout the country, and has served as lead counsel in a myriad of diverse and prominent business litigations.  He has tried to conclusion numerous cases involving trade secrets, antitrust, stock fraud, real estate brokerage, corporate and partnership disputes, as well as high profile matrimonial matters and chancery cases of all types.   

Mr. Rowe is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, the American Bar Foundation, and the International Academy of Trial Lawyers.  He is a past President of the Essex County Bar Association and a member of the New Jersey State and American Bar Associations.  He is also a Trustee and Past President of the Legal Services Foundation of Essex County.  

Mr. Rowe is the original author of New Jersey Business Litigation, the primary resource on how New Jersey courts have dealt with business issues in litigation, and co-authored the book's 2014 edition. He is also the co-author of Guidebook to Chancery Practice in New Jersey, the standard textbook utilized by judges and equity lawyers throughout the state.

In 2014, Mr. Rowe was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement in Litigation Award from the New Jersey Law Journal.  He was the recipient of the National Judge Learned Hand Award from the Metro New Jersey Region of AJC in 2013, and received the Trial Attorneys of New Jersey Lifetime Achievement Award in 1993.
 

 

 

 

 

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Education:

  • Columbia University, LL.B., graduated 1961
  • Tufts University, BA, graduated 1958

Bar Admissions:

  • New Jersey, NJ - 1962
  • New York, NY - 1961

Affiliations:

  • American Bar Association - Member, Sections of Litigation and Family Law
  • American Bar Foundation - Fellow
  • American College of Trial Lawyers - Fellow
  • Essex County Bar Association - Past President and Member
  • International Academy of Trial Lawyers - Fellow
  • Legal Services Foundation of Essex County - Trustee and Past President
  • Middlesex County Bar Association - Member
  • New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education - Former Trustee
  • New Jersey State Bar Association - Member; Past Chair, Fee Arbitration Committee
  • New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Masters and Hearing Officers - Former member

Named "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers for:

  • Litigation - Real Estate, Woodbridge (2014)
  • Appellate Practice, Woodbridge (2013)
  • Bet-the-Company Litigation, Newark (2011)
 

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America for work in:

  • Appellate Practice
  • Bet-the-Company Litigation
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Family Law
  • Litigation - Construction
  • Litigation - Intellectual Property
  • Litigation - Real Estate
 

Awards:

  • Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement in Litigation Award from the New Jersey Law Journal (2014)
  • Recipient of the Robert J. Cirafesi Chancery Practice Award from the Middlesex County Bar Association (2014)
  • Recipient of the National Judge Learned Hand Award from the Metro New Jersey Region of AJC (2013)
  • Recipient of the Trial Bar Award from the Trial Attorneys of New Jersey (1993)

Special Focus:

  • Complex Assets
  • Family Law Appeals
  • Intellectual Property
  • Litigation
 

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Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP
http://www.greenbaumlaw.com
 
Headquarters
Metro Corporate Campus One
99 Wood Avenue South
P.O. Box 5600
Woodbridge, NJ 07095
(732) 549.5600
5 Office Locations
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United States

New Jersey

New Jersey

Red Bank, NJ

River Centre Building One

331 Newman Springs Road

Red Bank, NJ 07701

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(732) 476.2660

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Roseland, NJ

75 Livingston Avenue

Roseland, NJ 07068-3701

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(973) 535.1600

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1144 Hooper Avenue, Suite 212

Toms River, NJ 08753

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750 Third Avenue, Ninth Floor

New York, NY 10017

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(212) 847.9858

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Lawyer Case History

Construction Defect / Consumer Fraud

In a seven month jury construction trial in which his client was sued for $200 million for construction defects and consumer fraud, the jury returned a verdict against Mr. Rowe’s client of less than eight million dollars.

Liquidation

Mr. Rowe was lead trial counsel for the general creditors in the rehabilitation and liquidation of Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, the largest life insurance company liquidation in United States history, which resulted in his clients, the general creditors, receiving at the end of the seven year rehabilitation period 125% of their claims.

Breach of Contract, Anti-Trust, Malicious Interference

Mr. Rowe was lead trial counsel for the defense in a ten month breach of contract, anti-trust and malicious interference trial involving Atlantic City casinos in which, at the conclusion, the plaintiffs' $2 billion anti-trust claim and all of its other claims were dismissed.

Equitable Distribution

Mr. Rowe procured the largest known equitable distribution award in New Jersey at the conclusion of a three month trial.
 
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