New Jersey Business Litigation

PAUL A. ROWE, ESQ.is Chairman of the firm and Chairman of the Litigation Department of Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith Davis LLP, a firm with approximately 100 lawyers, 60 of whom practice in the Litigation Department.  The firm has offices in Woodbridge and Roseland, New Jersey.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. Listed in The Best Lawyers in America in the Bet-the-Company Litigation, Appellate Law, Commercial Litigation, Family Law, Litigation–Construction, Litigation–Intellectual Property and Litigation–Real Estate categories, Mr. Rowe was also selected as Best Lawyers'Lawyer of the Year in Litigation – Real Estate (2014), Appellate Practice (2013), and as Bet-the-Company Litigator of the Year (2011). He received the number one ranking in Super Lawyers New Jersey for three consecutive years (2012, 2013, 2014).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.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.In addition to being the original author of this publication, Mr. Rowe is the co-author of Guidebook to Chancery Practice in New Jersey, the standard textbook for chancery litigation in New Jersey.Mr. Rowe is a 1958 graduate of Tufts College and a 1961 graduate of Columbia Law School.He was admitted to the New York 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, the U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, the U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, and the U.S. Tax Court.