Phoenix | Tempe | Scottsdale Arizona DUI Lawyers
Firm Overview
Owens & Perkins, P.C. is a full service general practice law firm providing legal representation to individuals, families and businesses since 1996.
- Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review
- For superior Legal Ethics and Professional Ability
- Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers (only 5% of all Law Firms nationwide qualify)
- February 2007 Business Journal
- "Legal Eagle" Valley attorneys go the extra mile to rise to the top of their profession
- Super Lawyers of the Southwest, 2007, Top 5% of Family Law Attorneys in Arizona
The Phoenix Arizona DUI lawyers of the Firm handle cases involving criminal law, DUI defense law, estate planning, federal taxation, probate, guardianships and conservatorships, business law, civil litigation, domestic relations, corporate law, probate, business formation and representation, contract drafting and review.
In addition, Owens & Perkins has represented clients in cases involving divorce, legal separation, paternity, modification of family court orders, child support, premarital agreements, postnuptial agreements, and other family law matters.
C.D. OWENS, JR., ESQ.: Mr. Owens is the Senior Partner of Owens & Perkins, P.C. Mr. Owens graduated from the University of Oklahoma School of Law in 1949, summa cum laude, where he was a founding member of the Law Review and the Law Review Editor. He passed the bar and was admitted to practice in the State of Oklahoma in 1950, and then accepted employment as a labor attorney with the Sinclair Oil and Gas Company in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He moved to Connecticut in 1959 to be in management for the Sinclair Oil Corporation, working in its New York City office until 1966. In 1966, he relocated his family to Arizona and opened a law office in Scottsdale, where he has been practicing ever since. Mr. Owens is admitted to practice in Arizona and Oklahoma and before the U.S. District Court for the Districts of Arizona and Oklahoma. Mr. Owens and his granddaughter, Michelle J. Perkins, co-founded Owens & Perkins, P.C. in 1996.
MICHELLE J. PERKINS, ESQ.: Ms. Perkins is the Managing Partner of the general practice law firm of Owens & Perkins, P.C. Ms. Perkins was named in Southwest Super Lawyers, 2007; February, 2007 Business Journal "Legal Eagle;" and Ms. Perkins received a Peer Review Rating from Martindale-Hubbell evidencing her superior ethical standards and legal ability.
Ms. Perkins was admitted to the practice of law in Arizona in 1994 and was a sole practitioner in Scottsdale for two years. In 1996, she co-founded Owens & Perkins, P.C. with her grandfather, C.D. Owens. Ten years later, in 2006, Ms. Perkins co-founded Unlimited Resolutions Mediation, Inc., also located in Scottsdale.
Ms. Perkins is a Judge Pro Tem for the Maricopa County Superior Court, former Chair of a Maricopa County Bar Association Section, former member of the Superior Court Domestic Relations/Mental Health Committee, former Board Member of the Scottsdale Bar Association, former Arbitrator for the State Bar Fee Arbitration Committee and former Board Member of the Homeless Legal Assistance Project. Ms. Perkins has also taught continuing legal education seminars to fellow Attorneys.
Max N. Hanson, Esq.: Mr. Hanson graduated from Arizona State University College of Law in 1997 in the top one-third of his class. While a law student, Mr. Hanson was published in and served as an Editor on the Arizona State Law Journal. Additionally, during law school, he directed the Homeless Legal Assistance Project, a multiple-site, low-income legal clinic, and received the Dean's Award for service to the law school. Upon being admitted to practice in Arizona and the U.S. District Court of Arizona in 1997, Mr. Hanson has practiced exclusively as a trial attorney appearing in thousands of cases across the state in administrative agency proceedings, arbitrations, bench trials, and multi-day jury trials in a variety of family, civil, and criminal proceedings. Mr. Hanson is or has formerly been a member of the State Bar of Arizona's Family Law, Trial Practice, and Criminal Practice sections as well as the Arizona Trial Lawyers Association, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and the American Bar Association. His practice currently focuses on the areas of family law and criminal defense.
If you have been charged with a DUI offense, contact the experienced Phoenix, Tempe, & Scottsdale DUI attorneys, OWENS & PERKINS, P.C. at: 480-994-8824.
