CHRISTOPHER D. OWENS
PARTNER: EMPLOYMENT/LABOR, LITIGATION
100 Medtech Parkway
Johnson City, TN. 37604
Direct Dial: (423) 283-6312
Direct Fax: (423) 283-6301
E-Mail: cowens@hsdlaw.com
PRACTICE AREAS:
- Employment and Labor Law
- General Civil Litigation
- Land Use Litigation
- Creditors’ Rights and Asset Recovery
- Insurance Defense
EDUCATION:
- University of Virginia, 1995, Bachelor of Arts in Biological Chemistry
- University of North Dakota School of Law, 1999, Juris Doctorate
BACKGROUND:
- Law Clerk for the Honorable Glen M. Williams, Senior United States’ District Judge for the Western District of Virginia
- Managing Editor, University of North Dakota Law Review
- Licensed to Practice in Tennessee and Virginia
- Paratrooper, 82nd Airborne Division
PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC ACTIVITIES:
- Tennessee Bar Association, 2000
- Virginia State Bar, 2001
- Order of the Coif
AWARDS:
- Elected by law school faculty to the Order of Coif
- Selected by the Business Journal of Tri-Cities for membership in the "40 under Forty" Class of 2004
- 2004 Graduate of Lead Bristol
SPEECHES AND PUBLICATIONS:
- Printz v. United States: The Supreme Court Strikes Down the Brady Act as an Unconstitutional Infringement of Tenth Amendment State Sovereignty; 74 North Dakota Law Review, 543 (1998)
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