Philip Crowley | Morristown Business Lawyer

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About Philip

Philip P. Crowley Esq. is the founder and Managing Partner at Crowley Law LLC, a boutique corporate law firm focused on helping emerging tech and life sciences startups launch and reach their full potential. Phil guides clients in forming and structuring new business entities including mergers and acquisitions. As a trusted advisor, he guides entrepreneurs in strategic business initiatives including contract review and negotiation, licensing, IP planning and protection, and founders and key employee arrangements. Phil’s main objectives are to help startup businesses proactively avoid costly mistakes while laying a solid foundation for business growth and success. In addition to providing an analysis of and planning strategy for protection against liabilities, Phil provides ongoing proactive counseling services for clients without in-house counsel.

Prior to launching the firm, Phil served as a Corporate Counsel for Johnson & Johnson. In this role, Phil was a valuable partner for Johnson & Johnson’s diversified businesses and provided strategic legal guidance in the areas of mergers & acquisitions, finance & commercial law, FDA regulations and environmental compliance.

Phil is a Trustee of Stevens Institute of Technology, a member of the Advisory Board of the Stevens Venture Center, and Mentor to the Florida Atlantic University TechLaunch program. Phil leverages his connectivity to these organizations to help tech innovators seize opportunities. As a current Mentor to life sciences incubators at Weill Cornell Medical College, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center & Rockefeller University in NYC, Phil is uniquely qualified to help emerging life sciences companies at every stage in their life cycles.

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Experience

Owner

Philip P. Crowley LLC

Present

Admission

Verified New Jersey

1994

Verified New York

1977

Education

Stevens Institute of Technology

Bachelors

N/A

Recognitions & Achievements

Associations
  • New Jersey State Bar Association,
  • Chairman, Venture Capital, Angel Investor and Emerging Growth Technology Company Committee, –
    2019 / present
  • Solo & Small Law Firm Section
  • Business Law Section
  • New York State Bar Association
  • Member, Business Law Section
  • New Jersey Corporate Counsel Association, Board of Directors, –
    2001 / 2014
  • Association of Corporate Counsel, Board of Directors, Washington, D.C. –
    2007 / 2013
  • Brightflag (Ireland), Member Board of Directors, a SaaS company using Artificial Intelligence to help corporate law departments analyze, control and reduce outside counsel costs, –
    2015 / 2019
  • NJ Institute of Technology Enterprise Development Center, Executive in Residence, –
    2015 / 2018
  • Stevens Venture Center, Advisory Board, –
    2017 / Present
  • Stevens Institute of Technology, Board of Trustees, –
    1993 / Present
  • Member and Former Chairman, Research Enterprise & Technology Commercialization Committee
  • Former Member and Former Chairman, Audit Committee
  • Chairman, Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee
  • Weill Cornell Medical College, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center & Rockefeller University, Bench to Bedside Initiative and Weill Cornell Bioventure eLab Life Sciences Incubator, Mentor, –
    2016 / Present
  • Primary Legal Liaison to Boards of Significant Subsidiaries of Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ), –
    1982 / 2005
  • Biotechnology Innovation Organization, Washington, D.C., –
    1987 / 1993
  • Chair, Law Committee
Honors / Awards
  • “Man of the Year” Hope Through Education – A Fund for Better Futures
    2022
  • Stevens Outstanding Contributor Award
    2019
  • Listed in Super Lawyers®, Business Law
    2019-2022
  • Stevens Alumni Award
    2002
  • Certificate of Appreciation, FDA, Joint FDA-Industry Workshop on Software as a Medical Device
    1997

Notable Work

Publications

“Tips and Insights: Law Department Management, Association of Corporate Counsel Docket”,

2007


“Online Compliance Training:  A Primer”, Association of Corporate Counsel Docket,

2004


“Simulated Motion of Flux Tubes”, Cryogenics Vol. 12, No. 2,

1972

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