Susan A. Owen

As Managing Partner of Owen, Patterson & Owen, Susan Owen significantly impacts the firm's success in the courtroom. She has extensive experience in a variety of areas in the personal injury field, including product liability, general negligence, wrongful termination, harassment and discrimination, and wrongful death. Throughout her nearly 20-year career of representing injured victims, she has been instrumental in obtaining substantial awards for the firm's clients.While Susy found her niche several years ago in the personal injury legal field, she has been litigating cases since she began practicing law. She began her legal career at the Century City firm of Gibbs, Giden, Locher & Fleming, where she worked directly with senior partners, Kenneth C. Gibbs and Joseph Giden. She became proficient in construction and commercial litigation and title insurance law and ultimately became responsible for over 300 commercial litigation files, which she handled from inception through conclusion by settlement or trial. It was at Gibbs, Giden, et al. that she developed the skills of persuasive writing and innovative case strategies. These strengths have become the ticket to success for her clients.Susy is a graduate of Hastings Law School (J.D. 1989) and was an author for the Hastings International and Comparative Law Journal. Her article examined the disparate treatment of children of unwed parents in the United States and in the (then) Soviet Union. Susy attended University of California, Los Angeles (B.A. cum laude 1986) and was on the Dean's List.