Jason V. Owens, Esq., Senior Associate

Jason is a Senior Associate at Stevenson & Lynch, P.C. with a concentration in probate and family litigation, including divorce, domestic violence, child custody, equity and estates litigation, with a focus on high-conflict child custody and complex financial probate and family litigation.

Originally from Cape Cod, Jason was a journalist, proposal writer and marketing and business development professional in the engineering field before becoming an attorney. Prior to entering private practice, Jason was a Judicial Clerk for the Massachusetts Probate and Family Court, where he worked closely with twelve Probate and Family Court judges in Barnstable, Bristol and Essex counties. His responsibilities included drafting Judgments, Orders, and Memoranda of Decision, as well as performing research and analysis of complex legal questions. Jason's professional experience also includes more than six years in marketing, business development and international engineering consulting at the Cambridge-based world headquarters of Camp, Dresser, & McKee, Inc. (CDM), a global consulting, engineering, construction, and operations firm with more than 4,500 employees and 120+ offices worldwide.

Jason graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with a degree in Journalism (B.A. 2000) and Suffolk University Law School (J.D. 2007), where he was a member of the Moot Court Honor Board and author and editor for the Suffolk Journal of Trial and Appellate Advocacy. He was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 2007 and is also a member of the Bar of the Federal District Court for Massachusetts. During his time at Suffolk Law, Jason served as a Student Advocate at the Hale and Dorr Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School and had the pleasure of interning for the Honorable Robert W. Langlois, First Justice of the Norfolk Probate and Family Court.

Jason was the lead author in the June 2011 edition of the Suffolk Journal of Trial & Appellate Advocacy, for which he authored, Determining Self-Employment Income for Child Support Purposes: the Massachusetts View Compared with the National View. To read Jason’s article in .PDF format, please click here. Jason’s 2007 article, Hearing thy Neighbor: the Doctrine of Attenuation and Illegal Eavesdropping by Private Citizens, can be read here.