John R. Owen - Roanoke, VA

Overview

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • Washington and Lee University School of Law, Lexington, Virginia, 1995
    J.D.

• Non Legal Education

  • Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, 1992
    B.S.
    Honors: magna cum laude
    Major: Business Administration

Current Employment Position(s)

• Partner

Past Positions

• Cowan & Owen, P.C., Associate, 1995 - 1999
• Bott Ford-Mercury, Inc., Vice-President, 1991 - 1994

Pro Bono Activities

• Richmond Metropolitan Habitat for Humanity, 1997 - Present
• Virginia State Bar, Young Lawyers' Conference Pro Bono Projects

Bar Admissions

• Virginia, 1996
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Virginia, 1996
• U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit, 1996
• U.S. District Court Western District of Virginia, 1996
• U.S. Bankruptcy Court Western District of Virginia
• U.S. Bankruptcy Court Eastern District of Virginia

Other Affiliations

• Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys, 2014 - 2015 (Immediate Past-President)
• Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys, 2013 - 2014 (President)
• Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys, 2012 - 2013 (President-Elect)
• Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys, 2011 - 2012 (Treasurer)
• Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys, 2010 - 2011 (Director Emeritus)
• Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys, 2007 - 2010 (Board of Directors)
• Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys, 2008 (Instructor, Trial Tactics Seminar)
• Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys, 2004 (Convention Chairman)
• Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys, 2002 (Chair, Trial Tactics Seminar)
• Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys, 2000 - 2002 (Chair, Young Lawyers Division)
• Defense Research Institute, 2016 - 2019 (Board of Directors, Mid-Atlantic Region Director)
• Defense Research Institute, 2008 (It Is All About Relationships – For the Defense, with Donald P. Moloney, II)
• American Board of Trial Attorneys (ABOTA), 2016 - 2018 (State Representative)
• American Board of Trial Attorneys (ABOTA), 2015 - 2016 (Virginia Chapter President)
• Federal Bar Association, Richmond Chapter, 2009 - 2015 (Board of Directors)
• Lewis Powell Inn of Court, 2011 - 2017 (Board of Directors)
• International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC)
• Association of Defense Trial Attorneys (ADTA)
• Virginia Bar Association, 1997 - 2001 (Richmond Delegate to the Young Lawyers Division)
• Richmond Bar Association
• Henrico County Bar Association