Johnson & Bell Shareholder, Kevin G. Owens, was elected Chair of the Board of Directors of ALFA International at the organization’s 2020 Annual Business Meeting, held October 21-23. He will serve a two-year term in that post.
Founded in 1980, ALFA International was the first and continues to be one of the largest and strongest legal networks, with some 150 member firms around the world. Johnson & Bell, Ltd. is the exclusive Chicago, northern Illinois and northwest Indiana member of ALFA International.
ALFA’s U.S. firms maintain offices in 95 of the 100 largest metropolitan areas. Its 70 international firms are located throughout Europe, Asia, Australia/New Zealand, Africa, Canada, Mexico and South America. ALFA’s Board of Directors is comprised of sixteen lawyers from member firms, four of whom come from international member firms. Members and their clients enjoy the benefits of this global network, which effectively links lawyers and law firms across the globe to provide clients with representation and counsel virtually anywhere in the world. Clients also benefit from outstanding legal education programs conducted around the world at both face-to-face legal conferences and via webinars and teleseminars. For more information about ALFA, please visit http://www.alfainternational.com.
Mr. Owens is co-chair of Johnson & Bell’s Product Liability practice group. His civil litigation practice includes the defense and trial of catastrophic injury, consumer and other product liability actions, construction and general negligence actions, and the litigation of commercial disputes in state and federal courts. His experience also includes litigation of construction product defect actions, and litigation of contract actions at law and equity. He is also a certified mediator, with a mediation practice focused on civil and commercial disputes involving product liability, complex and catastrophic injury cases, and construction matters. As a complex case mediator, Mr. Owens focuses his mediation practice on civil and commercial disputes involving product liability, complex and catastrophic injury cases, and construction matters. Mr. Owens draws upon his extensive experience as a litigator to achieve effective results for the parties involved in the mediation process.
Mr. Owens was elected to ALFA’s Board of Directors in 2017 and served as Vice Chair of the Board from 2018-2020. He previously served as Program Chair for ALFA International’s 2017 International Client Seminar (“ICS”), and as Chair of ALFA’s Product Liability and Complex Torts Practice Group, of which he remains a steering committee member. The ICS is ALFA’s premier annual event, and its most comprehensive legal seminar of the year.
