Owens & Millsaps, LLP is a successor firm to Owens & Almond, LLP. Owens & Almond, LLP was a successor firm to Owens & Carver and Owens, Carver & Almond. John Owens and Susie Carver withdrew from the firm of Phelps, Owens, Jenkins, Gibson & Fowler in 1994 and formed Owens & Carver. The Phelps, Owens firm had been established by Sam Phelps and John Owens in 1969. Over the next 25 years it grew into a firm of over 15 attorneys. It had been a successor firm to Mize, Spiro & Phelps, and then Spiro & Phelps, which had its beginnings before World War II, when Henry H. Mize began practicing law in Tuscaloosa.

Owens & Carver became Owens, Carver & Almond in 1997 when Brad Almond was made a partner. The firm became Owens & Almond in 1998 when Susie Carver decided to leave the private practice of law for the environment of The University of Alabama School of Law. Owens & Almond became Owens & Millsaps in 2003 when Brad Almond left the firm. The current partners of the firm are John A. Owens, Apsilah Owens Millsaps, Anna Northington Hutcheson, W. Ivey Gilmore, and Susie Taylor Carver. Effective in early January 2003, Susie Carver rejoined the firm after spending the last 4 years as Assistant Dean and Director of Law Career Services at The University of Alabama School of Law. W. Ivey Gilmore joined the firm as an Associate in January 2003.

In 1998, the firm acquired the Minor-Searcy House (CIRCA 1832) at 2606 8th Street, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35401. The house was built in 1832 by Henry Minor who served as reporter for the Alabama Supreme Court and as Clerk of the Alabama Supreme Court. After considerable restoration work the firm opened for business there on December 28, 1998. The Minor-Searcy House has a long and interesting history and was the subject of a feature article in Old Tuskaloosa Magazine in 1999. The firm looks forward to many years of practicing in and preserving this historic building.

The firm and members of the firm have been involved in numerous significant cases through the years.  A listing of cases in which a published opinion has appeared can be viewed by clicking here.