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Karen Safran is a member of the Litigation Practice Group. Her practice focuses on complex commercial, business tort, corporate dispute and land use litigation. Karen received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Michigan in 1991 and her juris doctor degree, cum laude, from the Wayne State University Law School in 1994, where she participated in the Moot Court program and received the American Jurisprudence Award for Torts.

Karen is a member of the Civil Procedure and Courts Committee of the State Bar of Michigan and is an Oakland County Circuit Court Case Evaluator (Complex Commercial Neutral). Karen is also active in the Oakland County Bar Association, where she sits on the Circuit Court Committee and is also a Barrister in the Oakland County chapter of the American Inns of Court.

Areas of Practice:

• Business and Corporate Law
• Complex Litigation
• Zoning and Land Use

Education:

• B.A., University of Michigan, 1991
• J.D., Wayne State University, cum laude, 1994

Bar Admissions:

• Michigan, 1994
• U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan, 1994
• U.S. District Court, Western District of Michigan, 2002
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, 2002
• U.S. Supreme Court, 2003

Professional Memberships:

• State Bar of Michigan
  • Civil Procedure and Courts Committee
• Oakland County Bar Association
  • Circuit Court Committee, Chairperson 2010-2011 
  • Continuing Legal Education Committee, Chairperson 2010-2012 
  • Oakland County Inns of Court, Barrister
• Oakland County Circuit Court Case Evaluator (Complex Commercial Neutral)
• American Bar Association

Publications:

• "Annual Survey of Michigan Law: Torts," 50 Wayne Law Review 757, 2004
• "Annual Survey of Michigan Law: Torts," 51 Wayne Law Review, 937, 2005

Recognitions:

•  AV Peer Review Rating, Martindale Hubbell         
• dbusiness, "Top Lawyers in Metropolitan Detroit", 2010      
• Super Lawyer, Top Attorneys in Michigan, 2010 edition