About Karen

 

Excellence in Family Law

 

 

Karen is a divorce litigator with 25 years of trial experience. She holds a master's degree and a juris doctor degree, in addition to having participated in training with the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and Harvard Law School. She regularly completes at least twelve hours of continuing legal education classes per year, and has participated in numerous legal education seminars, both in planning and presentation. She is a published author and currently has a work in progress on the benefits of coaching in divorce. She is an experienced teacher, having taught at the college level prior to going to law school.  In addition to Massachusetts, Karen is also admitted to practice in Kentucky and Alabama.


 
  • Karen has achieved and maintained the highest attorney peer-ranking in Martindale-Hubbell for the past eighteen years. She has been included in BEST LAWYERS IN AMERICA in family law since 1993. In 2006, BEST LAWYERS IN AMERICA named only 42 Boston lawyers as "best" in family law of over 40,000 Massachusetts licensed attorneys. In 2005, Karen was named a "Rising Star in the Law," by BOSTON MAGAZINE. In 2006, she was named a Massachusetts "Super Lawyer," by BOSTON MAGAZINE after having practiced in Massachusetts for only eight years and has been included in that list every year since then. She has served on the Board of the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers for six years and during that time has chaired the Education Committee and been a member of the Amicus Curiae Committee.

  • Over her career, Karen has on her own, without the assistance of associates or law clerks, represented clients in over 200 evidentiary matters, including trials involving child custody, support and property distribution, relocation, and parental alienation. On a limited basis she has represented defendants in criminal cases, achieving a 100% acquittal rate in those matters, including a court-martial of an army sergeant.

  • Karen is a member in good standing of the Massachusetts Bar, the Kentucky Bar Association, and the Alabama State Bar Association and holds a real estate broker's license. She is also a member of the Massachusetts Association of Guardians Ad Litem and the International Coach Federation. In addition, she is a licensed commercial airplane pilot and dressage enthusiast. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

 

 

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