Mr. Carlton is counsel in the Commercial Litigation Department with a practice focused on fidelity and surety law, construction claims litigation, construction contracting, construction contract drafting and insurance litigation.
Mr. Carlton has over 30 years experience in counseling and representing clients in regards to all aspects of suretyship, including drafting takeover and completion agreements, managing defaults and takeover situations, prosecuting indemnity actions, defending payment and performance bond claims and defending bad faith claims against sureties. Mr. Carlton's experience also includes litigating delay and disruption, inefficiency and extra work claims. He has also litigated claims involving check forgery and check kiting for insurers and financial institutions.
Mr. Carlton is a member of the National Bond Claims Association, the Surety Claims Institute, and the Fidelity and Surety Law Committee of the TIPS Section of the American Bar Association and the Forum on the Construction Industry of the American Bar Association. He has written and lectured on construction and surety topics at CLE programs for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, the National Business Institute and the Fidelity and Surety Law Committee.
Mr. Carlton received an A.B. from the College of the Holy Cross in 1971 and a J.D. from Villanova University School of Law in 1976. He is licensed to practice in Pennsylvania and New York and is admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. Mr. Carlton has been AV rated by the Martindale-Hubbell peer review rating system.
