John Bowdich

Meet John Bowdich.

John W. Bowdich founded Bowdich & Associates, PLLC in 2017. Prior, John acted as the Chair of the Commercial Litigation Section at The Willis Law Group, PLLC for four years, and Partner at Korn, Bowdich & Diaz, LLP for thirteen years. John received the designation of D Magazine’s Best Lawyers as chosen by his peers in 2014 and 2016 through 2025 and was selected to the Texas Super Lawyers list by Thompson Reuters for 2014 through 2024, a designation received by less than 5% of attorneys in the state.

John has more than twenty-nine years of experience in representing and advising companies sized from one to five thousand employees with an emphasis in commercial and tort litigation, collections, consumer law defense, and real property litigation. John has assisted in prosecuting over 2,500 commercial contract and collection matters, including extensive post-judgment collection work and receiverships. John has also defended in excess of 1,000 consumer protection statute matters. He also handles business torts, real property disputes, business divorces, bankruptcy cases, and construction and contractor/vendor disputes. John regularly acts as local counsel across state and federal Texas courts for out-of-state law firms and businesses.

John has represented intellectual property clients such as KingVision Pay-Per-View, Ltd., UFC, Garden City Boxing Club, Inc., J&J Sports Productions, Inc., and Joe Hand Promotions, Inc.; construction clients such as Pulte Homes, Louisiana-Pacific Corporation, Matthews Southwest, Centex Corporation, Darling Homes, Med-Tech Construction, and David Weekley Homes; financial institutions and real estate asset managers such as Royal Bank of Canada, Yorkshire Realty, Fifteen Asset Management, Greystar, and Olympus Property Management; energy clients such as JP Energy Partners (Pinnacle Propane, LLC) and Spindletop Oil & Gas Co.; software developers such as Recursion Software and Midnight Coders; and consumer law clients such as National Credit Systems, Inc. and ProCollect, Inc.

John has at least 60 district court and appellate opinions published by Lexis-Nexis. He speaks on business and collection matters and has authored or assisted in the preparation of several CLE articles related to judgments and collection matters.

Admissions

State Bar of Texas
Federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
Federal Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Texas
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Texas
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma
U.S. District Court for Colorado
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Professional Affiliations

State Bar of Texas
Dallas Bar Association, Commercial Litigation Section
St. Thomas Aquinas Lawyers Association, President

Education

J.D., Texas Tech University School of Law, 1996

Class President, 1994-96
Board of Barristers, Vice Chair, 1995-96
Member, Honor Code & Ethics Committee, 1995-96
Marion T. Key Delt Scholar Award
Member, Texas Tech’s ABA National Negotiation Team, National Finalist, 1996

B.B.A., Business Management, Texas A&M University, 1992

Honors

Texas Super Lawyer by Thompson Reuters as published in Texas Monthly magazine, 2014–2025
Recognized in D’s Best Lawyers as published by D Magazine, 2014, 2016–2025