Background
Crawford Orr, James was born on December 25, 1939 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
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James Crawford Orr
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Seton Hall University (Bachelor of Arts, 1961. Juris Doctor, 1964).
Career
Worked at Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker (Newark, New Jersey) specializing in General Insurance and Reinsurance Practice and Litigation. Commercial, Corporate and Securities Law. Domestic and International Property and Casualty Insurance and Reinsurance.
Products and Professional Liability, Toxic Tort Defense, Environmental Impairment Liability, Medical and Hospital Malpractice, Municipal and Public Officials Liability, Trusts and Estates.
Aviation, Marine and Inland Marine. Securities and Fiduciary Liability and General Subrogation.
Admitted to the bar, 1964, New Jersey. 1982, New New York
Phi Alpha Delta.
Lecturer: American Bar Association National Institute on Products Liability, 1980.
American Bar Association Toxic Tort Management Program, 1983. Trial Advocacy Institute, Institute Foreign Continuing Legal Education, New Jersey, 1991. Member: Essex County (President, 1986-1987.
Officer and Trustee, 1982-1985.
Chairman, Judicial Appointment Committee, 1981-1984), New Jersey State and American (Delegate to House of Delegates, 1980. Chairman, Products, General Liability and Consumer Law Committee, 1984.
Chairman, Special Committee on Asbestos Legislation, 1983-1985) Bar Associations. Essex County Bar Foundation (President, 1994).
Trial Attorneys of New Jersey (Member, Board of Trustees, 1987-1989).
International Association of Insurance Counsel (Member, Products Liability Committee, 1983). Defense Research Institute. Fellow: American Board of Trial Advocates.
American Bar Foundation.
Master Brennan Inn of Court, New Jersey. (Certified Civil Trial Attorney, Supreme Court of New Jersey, Board on Trial Attorney Certification).
Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker is a full service international law firm, ranking among the largest law firms in the United States with offices in eleven major cities in the United States. We have provided our clients with a full range of expert and innovative legal services for more than a quarter of a century.
Our dramatic growth during this period has been a response to the emerging needs of existing clients and addition of new ones.
Initially, ours was an insurance-related practice and we maintain a preeminent position with regard to all aspects of insurance law and the insurance/reinsurance industry serving insureds, brokers, insurers and reinsurers. As our clients have matured and broadened in scope, so have our services and expertise and we have expanded into the general corporate law, including creditors" rights and bankruptcy, trusts and estates and real estate transactions and regulatory work.
Achievements
Membership
Member: Essex County (President, 1986-1987. Officer and Trustee, 1982-1985. Chairman, Judicial Appointment Committee, 1981-1984), New Jersey State and American (Delegate to House of Delegates, 1980.
Chairman, Products, General Liability and Consumer Law Committee, 1984.
Chairman, Special Committee on Asbestos Legislation, 1983-1985) Bar Associations. Essex County Bar Foundation (President, 1994).
Trial Attorneys of New Jersey (Member, Board of Trustees, 1987-1989). International Association of Insurance Counsel (Member, Products Liability Committee, 1983).
Defense Research Institute.
Fellow: American Board of Trial Advocates. American Bar Foundation. Master Brennan Inn of Court, New Jersey.
(Certified Civil Trial Attorney, Supreme Court of New Jersey, Board on Trial Attorney Certification).
