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Mr. Bowman earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from the University of Arkansas in May 1981, where he was recognized as the Outstanding Accounting Student in his class. Mr. Bowman is a Certified Public Accountant having worked for several years with Price Waterhouse. Mr. Bowman earned his juris doctorate with Highest Honors from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, School of Law, where he was an Editor of the Law Review and received multiple American Jurisprudence Book Awards for earning the highest grade in the school in several courses. Mr. Bowman began his legal career in 1986, with the Department of Justice Honors Program, a program created by Attorney General Robert Kennedy. Mr. Bowman worked for the Tax Division of the Department of Justice, in Washington, D.C. until October 1990. During his tenure with the DOJ, Mr. Bowman tried dozens of cases involving diverse and complex issues including tax fraud, amortization of core deposit intangibles, "Bivens" actions and judicial review ability of governmental action. While at the Justice Department, Mr. Bowman litigated a matter making it clear that certain action or inaction on the part of the Internal Revenue Service Commissioner is not subject to judicial review. See Horton Homes, Inc. v. United States of America, 727 F. Supp. 1450 (1990), affirmed by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and subsequently overturned prospectively by Congress. During his tenure at the Justice Department, Mr. Bowman was recognized as the "Outstanding Attorney" of the Tax Division (nationwide). In 1990, Mr. Bowman returned to Little Rock, Arkansas, where he began his private practice of law with the firm of Jack, Lyon & Jones, P.A. In 1993, Mr. Bowman became a partner of Jack, Lyon & Jones and was head of the firm’s complex commercial and white collar defense litigation sections. Over the past ten years, Mr. Bowman has been involved in a number of high profile cases, including the criminal defense of a complex "Whitewater" matter wherein the former governor of Arkansas and his attorney were indicted by the Whitewater prosecutor, Kenneth Starr. In that case, United States of America v. John H. Haley, 898 F. Supp. 654 (1995), Haley and Tucker successfully argued to the District Court that Kenneth Starr had exceeded his jurisdiction in prosecuting citizens of the State of Arkansas as opposed to officers of the Executive Branch with whom Attorney General Reno had a conflict of interest. That case was subsequently reversed by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Bowman’s litigation experience is broad and includes both the prosecution and defense of cases on behalf of individuals and classes involving death penalty matters; common law civil fraud; securities fraud; RTC savings and loan litigation; general commercial litigation; white collar crime; and tax matters. Mr. Bowman’s class action experience includes the successful defense of a string of related class actions brought against Rapid Acceptance Corporation alleging that Rapid had charged consumers an amount of interest in excess of the amount allowed by law. Mr. Bowman is also actively involved in many of the firm’s securities class actions, particularly those involving accounting fraud, and is taking the lead role for the firm in such cases as Rosa E. Garza v. J.D. Edwards & Co., U.S.D.C. District of Colorado, No. 99-1744, (settlement of $15 million, wherein Mr. Bowman served as Co-Lead Counsel); Betty M. Lynch v. JDN Realty Corp., et al., U.S.D.C. Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division, No. 1:00-CV-2539 (Case settled for more than $40 million in cash and stock with 11% of the total settlement allocated to Mr. Bowman’s clients); In re Phycor Shareholder Litigation, U.S.D.C., Middle District of Tennessee, Nashville Division, No. 3-99-0807 ($10 million cash settlement); and In re Vision America Securities Litigation, U.S.D.C., Middle District of Tennessee, Nashville Division, No. 3-00-0279 ($2.575 million settlement with individual defendants, $3.4 million settlement pending with auditor KPMG). Mr. Bowman is currently working on one of the most significant securities cases to be brought in recent history, In re Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation, U.S.D.C. Southern District of New York, 21 MC 92 (SAS), which alleges that 55 investment banking firms, and 309 companies and certain officers and directors manipulated the high tech initial public offering markets. |
