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Michael D. Osteen

Michael Osteen practices primarily in the areas of commercial litigation, estate and trust law, and estate planning. Mr. Osteen is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of San Diego School of Law where he was an executive editor of the San Diego Law Review. He is admitted to practice in all courts of the states of Virginia, Pennsylvania, California and South Carolina. He is also admitted to practice before the United States District Court in all districts of Virginia and California and before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the Ninth Circuit. He has been published in the San Diego Law Review and American Law Reports.

Mr. Osteen received his undergraduate degree from Anderson University and advanced degrees from the University of Southern California including a Master of Arts in International Relations and a Master of Science in Systems Management. Prior to entering the legal profession he was an officer in the United States Navy serving at sea in cruisers and destroyers and ashore as Executive Officer of Naval Station San Diego, on the staff of the Pacific Fleet Amphibious Force Commander, and in the Plans and Policy Division of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. After graduation from law school in 1991, Mr. Osteen practiced in San Diego with the law firm of Schall, Boudreau & Gore until 1995 when he relocated to Greenville, South Carolina, where he was a sole practitioner for three years. He returned to his home state of Virginia and joined Bourdow, Bowen & Ellis, P.C. in 1999.



 

 

 

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