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Law Blog Obituary: McCarter & English?s Andrew T. Berry

By Ashby Jones

Some sad news to bring you today from the law-firm world. Andrew T. Berry, the chairman of the prominent New Jersey firm McCarter & English, died suddenly on Friday in his summer home in Maine. Berry was 69. He died of an apparent heart attack. Click here for the story, from the Newark Star-Ledger.

Berry (Princeton, Harvard Law), was a McCarter & English lifer. He joined the firm after graduating from Harvard in 1965, and became a partner in 1972. He was elected chairman of the executive committee in 1997. His practice consisted of trial and appellate litigation, as well as international arbitration, with particular specialties in insurance and product-liability litigation.

Full post as published by Law Blog - WSJ.com on July 27, 2009 (boomark / email).