Dennis Owens
Private Practice Lawyer
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Practice Areas
Appellate Practice; Criminal Appeals; Civil Appeals; U.S. Supreme Court Litigation; Constitutional Law
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Admitted
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1975, Missouri and U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri; 1976, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, U.S. Tax Court, U.S. Claims Court and U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; 1978, U.S. Supreme Court; 1983, U.S. Court of Military Appeals and U.S. Court of International Trade; 1984, U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; 1988, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit; 1990, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits; 1993, U.S. Court of Veterans Appeals; 1997, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri; 1998, U.S. District Court, District of Kansas; 2002, U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit
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Law School
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University of Notre Dame, J.D.
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Member
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Kansas City Metropolitan (Chairman, Appellate Court Committee, 1984-1986) and American (Member, Appellate Practice Committee, Section of Litigation, 1976) Bar Associations; The Missouri Bar (Chairman, Appellate Practice Committee, 1988; Member, Board of Governors, 1997-1999); Notre Dame Law Association (Missouri Chairman, 1978); Lawyers Association of Kansas City (Member, Board of Directors, 1999); National Lawyers Association (Chairman, 1996, Appellate Section); Christian Legal Society; The American Society of Writers on Legal Subjects.
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Biography
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Author: "Missouri Appellate Courts Research Manual," State Courts Administrator, 1976; "Initial Considerations: Evaluating the Case for Appeal: Ethical Considerations on Appeal; New Counsel on Appeal?" Chapter One, Missouri Appellate Practice & Extraordinary Remedies, Fourth Edition (Mo. Bar CLE, 1989); "Rehearings, Transfers and Certiorari-Missouri and Federal," Chapter Nine, Missouri Appellate Practice & Extraordinary Remedies, Fourth Edition (Mo. Bar CLE, 1989); Article, "New Counsel on Appeal?," 15 Litigation No. 3, p. 1 (Spring, 1989); Article, "Federal Rehearings and Certiorari Practice," 44 Journal of the Missouri Bar 498 (December, 1988); "Second and Third Chances on Appeal," 14 Litigation No. 4, p. 27 (Summer, 1988); "Missouri Appellate Rehearings and Transfers," 44 Journal of the Missouri Bar 301 (August, 1988); "Appellate Court Jurisdiction," Chapter Three, Eighth Circuit Appellate Practice Manual (Minnesota State Bar CLE, 2001); "Brief Writing," Chapter Ten, Eighth Circuit Appellate Practice Manual (Minnesota State Bar CLE, 2001); "Scope and Standards of Review," Chapter Twelve, Eighth Circuit Appellate Practice Manual (Minnesota State Bar CLE, 2001); "Appellate Brief Writing in the Eighth Circuit," 57 Journal of the Missouri Bar 75 (March-April, 2001); "Ethics and Professionalism in Appellate Advocacy," chapter: Practitioner's Guide to Appellate Advocacy (American Bar Association, 2007). Co-Author: With Chief Justice Charles B. Blackmar, Supreme Court of Missouri, "Oral Argument," Chapter Six, Missouri Appellate Practice & Extraordinary Remedies, Fourth Edition (Mo. Bar CLE, 1989) Editor: Missouri Appellate Practice and Extraordinary Remedies, 4th Ed., The Missouri Bar, 1989; Bibliography of Appellate Practice Books, American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, 1996. Editor-in-Chief, Appellate Practice Journal, American Bar Association, 1987. Visiting Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 1988-1993. Law Clerk to Hon. Robert E. Seiler, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Missouri, 1975-1976. Consul General for the Republic of Austria in Kansas and Western Missouri, 1987. Fellow: American Academy of Appellate Lawyers; Association of the Bar of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (President).
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Born
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Kansas City, Missouri, December 4, 1944
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ISLN
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904638958
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