Andrew Berry, the chairman of McCarter & English who spearheaded its transformation from a local firm to a regional power, died Friday at age 69. Berry was known as an adept defense litigator, representing clients in the financial, life sciences, pharmaceutical, consumer and industrial-products industries. He was equally well regarded as a law firm leader, having led the firm in the past 12 years through an unprecedented era of expansion while encouraging its lawyers' devotion to pro bono and charitable activities.
July 29, 2009 at 12:00 AM
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Andrew Berry, the chairman of McCarter & English who spearheaded its transformation from a local firm to a regional power, died on Friday at his vacation home in Southport, Maine. He was 69.
Berry spent his entire law career at the Newark, N.J.-based firm where he began as a law clerk in the early 1960s. He was known as an adept defense litigator, representing clients in the financial, life sciences, pharmaceutical, consumer and industrial-products industries.
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