Mr. Farren has been a member of the firm since 1990.
He is a general practitioner with experience in corporate, real estate, tax, environmental, health, administrative and trusts and estates law. In 1994 he was appointed by Governor Pataki to head the transition team on environmental issues in New York State. In 1995,
he organized a task force to create a "green building" tax credit for New York State which was enacted into law in 1999.

Mr. Farren is a graduate of Yale University (1968) and Harvard Law School (1971). He began his legal career at Dewey Ballantine, LLP in New York City as an associate in its trusts and estates department.
In 1977 he joined the practice of Charles Korn to handle Mr. Korn’s estates practice. While with Mr. Korn, he developed a real estate practice, and in 1982, upon Mr. Korn’s closure of his office, he joined the firm of Friedman, Leeds & Shorenstein, representing primarily real estate developers and tax shelter syndicators.

In recent years, Mr. Farren has been appointed to mediate a number
of commercial disputes. He has settled complex matters involving the owners of Fairway with respect to a dissolution, the Modell family with respect to a series of business disagreements, the investors in a toy company with respect to an alleged securities fraud, a finder's fee dispute involving the designer Jill Stuart, a legal fee dispute involving several prominent law firms, and others.

He lives in Manhattan on the West Side with his wife, Ellen, and two children who are now in college. He served three years as president
of the Mendelssohn Glee Club of New York, the nation’s oldest continuous male chorus, and is still a member of that organization.

He is currently a board member of the New York League of Conservation Voters and serves as a board member of the co-op in which he lives.