Thomas P. Owen, Jr. joined Stanley Reuter Thornton Alford LLC in 2004 following a clerkship with the Honorable James L. Dennis of the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. He concentrates his practice in providing legal advice and representing business clients - particularly concerning closely held companies - both in transactions and in litigation. He also represents and provides advice to lawyers regarding legal malpractice claims, disciplinary complaints, fee disputes, law firm governance and dissolutions, legal ethics advice, and law firm business issues.
Mr. Owen graduated with a B.A. from Emory University in 1995. He graduated summa cum laude and Order of the Coif from Tulane Law School in 2002, where he served as Editor in Chief of the Tulane Law Review.
Mr. Owen is currently the Bar Examiner for Code I (Property and Family Law) of the Louisiana Bar Exam, is a member of the Board of Advisory Editors of the Tulane Law Review, is a former President of the Tulane Law Review Alumni Association, and has made multiple presentations on the issues of business transactions and litigation, legal ethics, and professionalism, and for the past several years has co-taught a Computer Law class with fellow firm member Bryan Reuter.
Mr. Owen has been selected for inclusion in Louisiana Super Lawyers every year since 2013 when he was initially listed as a Rising Star, has been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America every year since 2016 for Commercial Litigation and has also been selected in the areas of Appellate Practice, Ethics and Professional Responsibility Law and Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants. He has also been named a Top Lawyer by New Orleans Magazine for Legal Malpractice Law in 2018, 2021, and 2022 and for Appellate Practice in 2019.