Amy Elaine Owens joined Crowell & Moring in 2000 and has worked in the firm's Orange County and Washington, D.C. offices. While with the firm, she has contributed to several practice groups, including the Construction Group, Litigation Group and, most recently, the Insurance Group.
Amy worked on matters for numerous construction clients, including McCarthy Building Companies, Inc., Granite Construction Co., Kajima Engineering & Construction and represented the owners of two combined-cycle power plants in arbitrations with the EPC contractor. She also represented a consumer credit reporting agency in defending claims under the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
Most recently, Amy has represented some of the nation's largest insurers in insurance coverage disputes involving choice-of-law, allocation of long-tail claims, the duty to defend and number of occurrences. Currently, Amy is involved in a variety of complex insurance matters, including issues relating to the classification of claims made by installers of asbestos-containing materials and preparing analyses of insurers' asbestos exposures.
Amy is also active in pro bono matters. She worked with a team of attorneys from Crowell & Moring in petitioning the Louisiana Board of Pardons for a woman who had been imprisoned for twenty-two years. She was sentenced to a mandatory life term for selling heroin valued at $350 but she was finally released on parole under the recently-enacted Louisiana law making "heroin lifers" eligible for parole. Amy has also represented individuals in obtaining additional financial aid following Hurricane Katrina.
Amy is a member of the Bars of the District of Columbia, California and Mississippi.
Amy graduated summa cum laude with a degree in English from Mississippi State University in 1995. In 1998, she graduated magna cum laude from Mississippi College School of Law where she was chosen to serve as a member of the Mississippi College Law Review.
Prior to joining Crowell & Moring, Amy clerked for the Mississippi Supreme Court and the Mississippi Court of Appeals, where she worked with the Honorable Leslie H. Southwick, Presiding Judge. On October 29, 2007, Judge Southwick received an appointment to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Alerts & Newsletters
· "Is The US Looking Across The Pond?; Texas Enacts Tort Reform Law With "Loser Pays" Provision," Reinsurance Alert (July 20, 2011). Contacts: Natalia R. Medley, Robert L. Willmore, Amy E. Owens.