About

Karen Waters Shields is a associate at Kean Miller in New Orleans, Louisiana, focusing on admiralty and oil & gas casualty issues, creation law, and private harm litigation. Karen Waters Shields is a especially skilled litigator based totally in New Orleans, Louisiana. As a companion at Kean Miller, she focuses on a wide range of admiralty and oil & gasoline casualty problems, which include Jones Act cases, private harm claims, oil and gas exploration disputes, properly blowouts, shipment damage, vessel collisions, platform damage, and barge harm. Her expertise extends to each offshore incidents inside the Gulf of Mexico and onshore cases. In addition to her work in admiralty and oil & fuel law, Karen also has a robust background in production law, purchaser credit reporting, merchandise legal responsibility, and fashionable personal injury litigation. Her various criminal enjoy allows her to provide comprehensive illustration to customers going through a variety of criminal demanding situations. Karens willpower to her exercise and terrific felony capabilities were recognized through numerous corporations. She changed into commemorated as a recipient of the Leadership in Law Award through New Orleans CityBusiness in 2011 and obtained the Women of the Year award in 2012. Karen became also blanketed within the 2013 version of the Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Women Lawyers and has been indexed in Louisiana Super Lawyers from 2018 to 2019. Karen Waters Shields earned her Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Human and Natural Ecology from Emory University in 1993. She went directly to gain her Juris Doctor, graduating cum laude, with a Certificate of Specialization in Admiralty Law from Tulane University Law School in 1998. Overall, Karen Waters Shields is a dedicated and professional attorney who's devoted to presenting top-notch criminal illustration to clients in New Orleans and past.

Legal Issues

Construction Law

Construction Contracts, Construction Defects, Construction Liens, Construction Litigation

Energy, Oil & Gas Law

Utilities

Maritime Law

Personal Injury

Animal & Dog Bites, Brain Injury, Car Accidents, Construction Accidents, Motorcycle Accidents, Premises Liability, Truck Accidents, Wrongful Death

Products Liability

Drugs & Medical Devices, Motor Vehicle Defects, Toxic Torts

Certificates

Certificate of Specialization in Admiralty Law
Tulane University Law School

Languages

• English

Accepted Jurisdictions

Experience

• Partner
  Kean Miller LLP
  2006
• Lawyer
  Lemle & Kelleher, LLP
  2000
• Law Clerk
  24th Judicial District Court for the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana
  1999

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