Cranfill Sumner LLP today announced that Samantha Owens has joined the firm’s Charlotte office as an Associate Attorney. She focuses her practice in civil litigation.

Samantha earned her law degree from the University of Richmond School of Law, where she graduated summa cum laude and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. While in law school, she served as the Senior Notes and Comments Editor for the University of Richmond Law Review and won second place in the McNeil Law Society Writing Competition for her piece analyzing the impacts of social media on sovereignty and the rule of law.

She received her bachelor’s degree, with distinction, from the University of Virginia.