Attorney Profiles

TeLisa T. Owens
Southfield, Michigan

Associate
phone	(248) 415-3199
fax	(248) 936-2101
email	Email Me

TeLisa T. Owens is an appellate attorney at Sommers Schwartz, P.C. focusing on employment, commercial, and insurance matters. She worked at the Michigan Court of Appeals for five years, spending three years in the research division and two years as a judicial law clerk. Previously, she wrote appellate briefs for submission to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. She is active in the State Bar and a contributing writer to the Michigan Bar Journal. She also tutors for the Wolverine, Straker, and Association of Black Judges Bar Associations Minority Bar Passage Program.

Areas of Practice:: Appellate

Education:: Howard University School of Law, Washington, District of Columbia, 2001
Juris Doctorate
Honors: Merit Scholarship
Honors: Who's Who in American Law Students; Christopher Newport University, 1997
Bachelor of Arts
Honors: National Dean's List
Honors: National Award Winner
Honors: United States Achievement Academy
Major: International Business & Commerce, specialising in International Bus

Classes/Seminars Taught:: Lecturer, How to Write an Effective Pro Se Brief, National Lifers of America

Professional Associations and Memberships:: State Bar of Michigan; Member; Standing Bar Committee on Libraries, Legal Research and Legal Publications; Member; Michigan State Bar Appellate Section; Member; Michigan State Bar Young Lawyers Division; Member; Wolverine Bar Association; Officer; Wolverine Bar Association, 2005 - 2006; Board of Directors; Wolverine Bar Association, 2006 - 2007; Secretary; Federal Bar Association; Member; Federal District Court, Eastern District of Michigan; Member; Federal District Court, Western District of Michigan; Member; Federal Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit; Member; U.S. Supreme Court; Member

Past Employment Positions:: Michigan Court of Appeals, Honorable Kurtis T. Wilder, Judicial Law Clerk; Michigan Court of Appeals, Research Attorney; Legal Aid, Law Clerk

Attorneys of Sommers Schwartz, P.C., with offices in Southfield, Michigan, represent clients throughout Southeast Michigan and the Midwest United States, from communities in Michigan such as Detroit, Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, Troy, Rochester, Grosse Pointe, Sterling Heights, Warren, Taylor, Van Buren Township, Dearborn, Ann Arbor, Plymouth, Monroe, Jackson, Lansing, Grand Rapids, Flint, Kalamazoo and Saginaw; and clients and referring attorneys from other states such as Ohio, Tennessee, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin. Sommers Schwartz, P.C. lawyers represent plaintiffs, defendants, employees, management, small businesses, and corporations in individual lawsuits and class actions.

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