Darin Lowder

202/661-7631 Telephone
202/626-9073 Facsimile
lowderd@ballardspahr.com
Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP
601 13th Street, N.W.
Suite 1000 South
Washington, DC 20005-3807

Darin Lowder is an associate of the firm’s Washington, DC office. He works on matters involving energy, project finance, and real estate issues.

Prior to joining Ballard Spahr in 2006, Mr. Lowder held positions as an economist and a strategic marketing director at a publicly-owned home builder as well as a non-profit educational organization.

Mr. Lowder has authored several articles on housing and environmental issues. Among his articles are the following:

• “Strange Watershed Bedfellows? Does the EPA’s Water Quality Trading Policy Encourage Unlikely Clean Water Alliances?” 13 GEO. MASON L. REV., 411 (2005).
• Knight Ridder Newspapers (Ghost written for Senator Malcolm Wallop, George Landrith,) “Real Victims Harmed by Asbestos Lawsuits,” April 22-24, 2002.
• “Housing Opportunity Index, (by quarter),” Housing Economics. (Summary of housing affordability by geographic market for all major metropolitan statistical areas.) January, March, July, September, December 1996.
• “Jumbo Loans: Financing for Upscale Housing - How many are there?” Housing Economics. (Summary of home financing patterns in terms of loan size, geographic location of origination, recent trends, with emphasis on jumbo loans.) June 1996.
• “What Causes the Children to Go to School: the Determinants of Children’s Education in the Semi-arid Tropics of India,” Published honor’s thesis, 1993.

Mr. Lowder is admitted to practice law in Virginia.

Mr. Lowder is a graduate of George Mason University School of Law (J.D. 2006), Stanford University (MA 1994), and Brigham Young University (B.A. 1993).