Richard A. Bowman

As one of the firm’s founding partners with over 47 years of trial experience, Dick Bowman has spent about half of each year in catastrophic loss trials. He has successfully defended product liability cases for a number of industries including: aviation, all-terrain vehicles, automobiles, trucks, boats, farm equipment, motorcycles and industrial equipment.

Described as a “father figure of transport litigation” Mr. Bowman has gone to verdict in 37 states. He was recognized by Honda for outstanding service and 20 years of success in defending cases, including seven high-profile defense verdicts in catastrophic three-wheel ATV cases. Dick has authored several articles on product liability and is a frequent speaker. He has appeared on the McNeil-Lehr News Hour and has testified before Congressional Sub-Committees and before the Consumer Product Safety Commission regarding product liability issues. Mr. Bowman has been recognized as one of the most highly rated product liability trial lawyers nationwide by the International Who’s Who of Product Liability Defence Lawyers and by the International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers. In addition, he has also been listed as “one of the pre-eminent practitioners in the world” by the 2009 “Guide to World’s Leading Product Liability Lawyers.”

His career started out defending Corvair automobiles for General Motors in the 60’s, Volkswagen handling and stability and door latch cases nationally in the 70’s, and progressed to GM post-collision fuel-fed fire cases regionally in the 80’s, Honda three-wheeler ATV cases nationally in the 80’s and 90’s, Ford park-to-reverse transmission cases nationally in the 80’s and 90’s and roof-crush rollover cases for GM and Ford nationally in the 90’s and to date.