The Vowell Law Firm

Mr. Vowell is Board Certified as a Civil Trial Specialist and has been since 1997. He has maintained a litigation practice based in Knoxville, Tennessee, since 1978, with 28 years of class action/complex litigation experience. His first major success on appeal came in 1986 when he won reversal of a $1,250,000 punitive damages award against a trucking company in the 6th Circuit. In a trilogy of decisions by the Tennessee Supreme Court he established the landowner’s right to just compensation when Sprint unlawfully took their land for its fiber-optics cable and then established their right to proceed in a class action. In 2004, in the 7th Circuit, he won reversal of a decision by the United States District Court (Chicago) that had approved a nation-wide settlement that would have destroyed the Tennessee fiber-optics class action litigation, with the Tennessee landowners receiving essentially nothing. In 2001 he argued before the 6th Circuit en banc and won reversal of the district...