Position: Member

TEL: 314-889-7301

FAX: 314-863-2111

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Website: www.dowdbennett.com

Admitted: Missouri

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Practice Areas: Civil Litigation, Commercial Litigation

Additional Information: Mr. Dowd’s practice focuses on federal litigation. Mr. Dowd has represented numerous clients before the S.E.C., the Department of Justice and many other federal and state agencies. He has handled many complex civil and criminal cases.

From 1993 to 1999, he served as United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri. In that capacity, Mr. Dowd set policy and supervised a staff of 46 Assistant U.S. Attorneys and 42 support personnel in handling thousands of civil and criminal cases for the U.S. government.

In 1999-2000, Mr. Dowd assisted former Senator John C. Danforth as Deputy Special Counsel for the Waco Investigation.

Mr. Dowd personally tried three murder cases as United States Attorney. The last two cases resulted in death sentences. He served as Chair of the Attorney General’s Committee on Environmental Issues from 1995 to 1999. He served as Core City U.S. Attorney for the Central Region of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force. Prior to joining the U.S. Attorneys’ Office, Mr. Dowd was in private law practice at Dowd & Dowd for nine years, as a trial lawyer handling products liability, criminal, securities, copyright, negligence and commercial cases.

In 1983, Mr. Dowd was appointed regional director of the South Central Region (an eight-state region) of the President’s Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, and supervised attorneys and federal agents in the conduct of their cases. He served from 1979 to 1984 in the United States Attorneys’ Office as an assistant United States attorney. Over the five-year period, he tried numerous cases including those involving public corruption, mail fraud, white-collar matters, extortion and conspiracies to distribute drugs.

Mr. Dowd was a partner at Bryan Cave from 1999 – 2006. At Bryan Cave he was a member of the following client service groups: Corporate Compliance and Defense, Healthcare, Environmental and Commercial Litigation.

Firm Members: Willie Epps, Jr.

Firm Members: Gabriel Gore

Firm Members: Michelle Nasser

Firm Members: Matthew Crane