About Mitchell Owen
Mitch was previously an Assistant District Attorney for Harrison, Hancock and Stone Counties. Mitch served as an Assistant District Attorney for 8 years. As an ADA, he was personally responsible for the prosecution and trial of violent crimes, crimes against children, cases involving the sale of illegal narcotics and civil forfeiture cases of currency or property derived from illicit drug distribution. Before joining the District Attorney's office, he was in general practice with the firm of Owen, Galloway, and Myers.
Mitch and Joe Sam formed the firm of Owen and Owen, PLLC prior to partnering with Joel Smith. He has been a partner in the firm since 2020. Mitch is admitted to practice in all Mississippi State Courts. He is a member of the Federal Bar Association, the Mississippi Prosecutors Association, the National District Attorney's Association and the Harrison County Bar Association.
He is admitted to all Mississippi Courts, the United States District Courts for the Southern and Northern District of Mississippi and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Mitch Lance Owen is a lifelong resident of Gulfport, MS. He graduated from St. John High School and went on to Mississippi State University where he graduated Cum Laude with a degree in Political Science. He received his Juris Doctorate Degree from Mississippi College School of Law. Mitch resides in Gulfport with his wife and three children.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Owen, Owen & Smith, PLLC
These results are credited to Owen, Owen & Smith, PLLC. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
On June 25, 2014 John Williams Jr., a certified crane operator at the VT Halter Marine shipyard in Pascagoula, was in the cab of a Manitowoc Model 16000 crawler crane during a three-crane lift of a ship's bow when the cranes began pulling apart and his tipped. The 18,000-pound steel counterweights stacked on its rear slid forward and struck the cab, throwing him eight feet head-first onto concrete. He survived, permanently incapacitated. A Gulfport jury found Manitowoc never warned operators that could happen and awarded $8,500,000; after fault was split 50/40/10 the judgment against Manitowoc was $3,400,000, and the Fifth Circuit affirmed in 2018.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
