Karen graduated law school and became licensed to practice law in 2014 and began working with a small immigration law firm in San Antonio, Texas where she was responsible for authoring appeal briefs and representing clients in Immigration Court. Shortly thereafter she joined a firm that represented business entities where she performed the essential functions relating to registering and setting-up the entity with the state, as well as drafting and reviewing various contracts. Karen was able to relocate back to Dallas, Texas and began representing Plaintiffs at a large national litigation firm.
Karen joined Clerkin, Sinclair, & Mahfouz, LLP in 2018, and possess extensive trial experience in creditors’ rights in both District/County Courts and Justice Courts throughout Texas.
"If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable." ~ Louis D. Brandeis
Education: ▪ University of Texas at Arlington, Bachelor of Arts, 2006 ▪ Texas A&M School of Commerce, Master of Business Administration, 2011 ▪ Institute on World Legal Problems, University of Innsbruck in Austria (visiting professor, Justice Antonin Scalia), 2012 ▪ St. Mary’s University School of Law, Juris Doctor, 2014
Bar Admission: ▪ Texas, 2014 ▪ US Tax Court ▪ US District Court, Eastern District of Texas
Associations: ▪ National Association of Subrogation Professionals ▪ Texas Creditor’s Bar Association ▪ Collin County Bar Association ▪ Phi Alpha Delta, International Legal Honor Society
