Ryan W. Owen joined Adams and Reese in 2010. He has been practicing law since 2006 and is an Associate in the firm's Litigation Practice Group.
Ryan's experience includes construction, commercial, and real estate litigation, including matters involving contract disputes, real estate litigation, mortgage foreclosure landlord/tenant, creditor's rights/bankruptcy litigation and corporate partnership disputes.
He also handles FDUTPA claims, mortgage foreclosures, employment agreement/non-compete disputes, civil RICO, surveyor negligence, condominium association disputes, easement and property line disputes, general collections, federal securities litigation, Florida securities litigation and probate litigation.
His significant contributions include:
- Served as lead counsel in a two-day bench trial with more than $200,000 in controversy, multiple landlord/tenant trials, a Federal Telecommunications Protection Act Trial, and a commercial collection practices act trial.
- Arbitration experience includes serving as second chair at an 11-day final hearing involving construction delay, construction defects and lien foreclosure.
Ryan counsels his clients in all phases of the litigation process. His work includes claim analysis, interviewing key witnesses during depositions, discovery, preparation of motions and other court-required documentation, pre-trial preparation, trial, mediation and arbitration representation.
He is admitted to practice before all state courts in both Florida and Tennessee, as well as the U.S. District and Bankruptcy Courts in the Middle District of Florida.
Ryan earned his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Miami School of Law, where he served as the Inter-school Competition Vice President of the Moot School Board and as an Articles and Comments Editor on the Business Law Review. He was a Dean's Merit Scholar and received the Dean's Certificate of Outstanding Achievement as the top student in his Real Property and Insurance Law and Policy classes.
He earned his B.A. in French, cum laude, from Washington and Lee University, and is therefore conversant in French.
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