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Kristin Carter Rowe 
Albany, New York
Of Counsel
phone (518) 438-9907 (Ext. 300)
fax (518) 438-9914
email rowecrew@aol.com

Kristin Carter Rowe (Of Counsel) has extensive litigation experience having represented and counseled individual, corporate and municipal clients in all areas of civil litigation on both the state and federal levels. Her litigation experience includes the development of case strategies and the management of multi-party, complex cases. Ms. Rowe's experience includes pretrial procedure and discovery, motion practice and oral arguments, State and Federal court appearances as well as complex settlement negotiations and document drafting.

Ms. Rowe also has a successful appellate practice, having successfully handled several appeals before the Appellate Division of the State of New York and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

Ms. Rowe's primary area of practice are environmental, insurance and tort law, but she has also represented numerous clients in breach of contract, product liability, defamation, discrimination, antitrust, trade secret, personal injury, constitutional and complex partnership dissolution cases.

Ms. Rowe recently published a full-length novel, entitled The Most Undeniable Things (Xlibris 2000), and she has also been published in the Cornell Law Review. She has lectured on environmental, toxic tort, First Amendment and trade secret issues at area colleges and professional seminars. Ms. Rowe is a graduate of Cornell Law School where she graduated first in her class and was a member of the editorial staff of the Cornell Law Review.

Areas of Practice:
Constitutional Law
Freedom of Speech
Environmental Law
Cleanup & Superfund
Insurance Law
Property & Casualty
Litigation & Appeals
Complex Litigation
Federal Appellate Practice
Federal Trial Practice
State Appellate Practice
US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Defamation & Privacy -- Defense
Toxic Torts
Hazardous Waste
State Trial Practice
Litigation Percentage:
100% of Practice Devoted to Litigation
Bar Admissions:
New York, 1991
U.S. District Court Southern District of New York, 1992
U.S. District Court Northern District of New York, 1992
U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York, 1992
U.S. District Court Western District of New York, 1992
U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit, 2001
Education:
Cornell Law School, Ithaca, New York, 1990
J.D., Doctor of Jurisprudence
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Honors: 1st in Class; Order of the Coif
Honors: Ida Cornell Kerr & William Ogden Kell Memorial Prize - Academic Excellence
Law Review: Cornell Law Review, 1989 - 1990


State University of New York, Albany, New York
B.A., Bachelor of Arts
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
Minor: Mediterranean Archealogy.Anthropology


Published Works:
The Most Undeniable Things, Xlibris, 2000


Superfund Amendments: Limiting Individual Review to the Administration Record, Cornell L.Rev., Vol 74, September, 1989


Representative Cases:
Rothberg v. Reichett, 270 A.D. 2d 760 (3rd Dept. 2000)
Grossjahann v. Geo. B. Wilkins & Sons, Inc., 244 A.D.2d 808 (3rd Dept. 1997)
Nalley v General Elect. Co., 165 Misc.2d 803 (Sup. Ct. 1995)
Classes/Seminars Taught:
Adjunct Professor, Computer Law, RPI, 1997


Lecturer, Environmental Law for Engineers, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1993 - 1997


Focus on Wetlands: A Developers Perspective, Young, Stockli & Rowe, 1995


Honors and Awards:
Recipient of the Ida Cornell Kerr and William Ogden Kerr Memorial Price for Academic Excellence, 1990


Annual Corpus Juris Secundum Student Award for Legal Scholarship, 1989


Past Employment Positions:
Young & Rowe, Partner, 1992 - 1998


Whiteman Osterman & Hanna, Associate, 1990 - 1992


Pro Bono Activities:
Lecturer at Siena College's Bright Horizons Weekend, 1994 - 1997

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