John L. Davidson, J.D.
Email John: jdavidson@dbslawfirm.net
John Davidson is the managing partner of Davidson Bowie, PLLC. His firm represents clients throughout the country in matters ranging from complex securities cases to catastrophic injury cases.
John began his legal career in 1990 after graduating from the University of Mississippi Law School. He worked as a felony prosecutor in both Dallas, Texas and Jackson, Mississippi until 1998 and has personally tried scores of cases, including assisting in the successful re-prosecution of the murder of slain civil rights worker Medgar Evers. During the last four years of his prosecutorial career he ran the Grand Juries and homicide prosecutions division for the Hinds County Circuit Court in Jackson, Mississippi.
In 1998 John went into private practice. That firm became the largest plaintiffs practice in Mississippi, handling a variety of complex cases including mass pharmaceutical cases, securities and crash-worthy litigation involving automobile safety. During this time, John was involved in several of the nation’s leading product liability trials.
Since then, Davidson Bowie, PLLC has been lead counsel in multiple cases, including a case stemming from the rollover of a church bus which evolved into and created a nation-wide NHTSA recall of thousands of similarly defective manufactured buses. Read More About This Case and the Recall Here.
The firm has also obtained several large verdicts in a variety of cases, including a $52M jury verdict for a paralyzed child involving a defective booster seat. Read More About This in The Mississippi Jury Verdict Reporter.
Most recently, the firm is proud to have filed the FIRST opioid case in the country on behalf of a state government and currently represents Mississippi, Ohio, Arkansas, and Louisiana in the ongoing national opioid litigation.
Bar Admissions
Texas
Mississippi
U.S. District Court-Southern District of Mississippi
U.S. District Court-Northern District of Mississippi
Education
Texas Tech University, Bachelor of Business Administration
University of Mississippi, Juris Doctorate
F. Lee Bowie, J.D.
Lee Bowie is a founding partner of the firm. He earned his Bachelor’s degree from Mississippi College and his Juris Doctorate from the University of Mississippi.
Lee began practice in 1990, working primarily in the complex products liability defense sector. He spent considerable time in litigation and courtrooms spanning across the country during the 1990’s.
Since forming this firm with John Davidson in 2004, Lee’s practice has primarily been focused on disputes between business owners, and the recovery of financial losses associated with securities and other investments.
Awards, judgments and settlements on behalf of the firm’s clients are in excess of $40M.
Bar Admissions
Mississippi
U.S. District Court-Southern District of Mississippi
U.S. District Court-Northern District of Mississippi
Education
Mississippi College, Bachelor of Science
University of Mississippi, Juris Doctorate
