Karen Waters Shipman
Helping You with All Your Legal Needs
* Both fields are required
Not Yet Verified Profile
Claim Your Profile?
Karen Waters Shipman
Biography
Karen Waters Shipman is a partner in the New Orleans office of Kean Miller. Karen is an experienced litigator with particular experience in a wide variety of admiralty and oil & gas casualty issues, including Jones Act, personal injury, oil and gas exploration, well blowouts, cargo damage, vessel collisions, vessel damage, platform damage and barge damage. Her experience with oil and gas casualties is both offshore in the Gulf of Mexico and on land. Karen also has experience in construction law, consumer credit reporting, products liability, and general personal injury litigation. Following law school, she served for one year as a judicial law clerk to the Hon. Fredericka H. Wicker of the Twenty-Fourth Judicial District Court for the Parish of Jefferson.
Karen was selected by New Orleans CityBusiness as a 2011 Leadership in Law Award recipient, and as a 2012 recipient of the Women of Year award. She was selected for inclusion into the 2013 edition of the Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Women Lawyers. Karen is listed in Louisiana Super Lawyers 2018 - 2019.
Karen earned her B.A. in Anthropology and Human and Natural Ecology from Emory University in 1993. She earned her J.D., cum laude, with a Certificate of Specialization in Admiralty Law from Tulane University Law School in 1998.
Practice Areas
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
Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice
Languages
Professional Experience
Law Clerk 24th Judicial District Court for the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana
Year: 1999 - 2000
Description:
Attorney Lemle & Kelleher, LLP
Year: 2000 - 2006
Description:
Partner Kean Miller LLP
Year: 2006 - Current
Description:
Professional Associations
Louisiana State Bar Member (Current)
Federal Bar Association Member (Current)
Women's International Shipping & Trading Association (WISTA) Member (Current)
Women's Energy Network, Southeast Louisiana Chapter Member (Current)
New York State Bar Member (Current)
New Jersey State Bar Member (Current)
American Bar Association Member (Current)
Publications
Is the Limitation of Liability Act Going to Sink with the Deepwater Horizon? Louisiana Law Blog
Awards
-
Super Lawyer
Super Lawyers
Note: 2018, 2019
-
Bar Register of Preeminent Women Lawyers
Martindale-Hubbell 2013.0
-
AV Peer Review Rating
Martindale-Hubbell
-
Leadership in Law Award
New Orleans CityBusiness 2011.0
-
Women of Year award
New Orleans CityBusiness 2012.0
Education
-
Tulane University School of Law J.D. | Law
Year: 1998
Honors: cum laude, Certificate of Specialization in Admiralty Law.
-
Emory University B.A. | Anthropology and Human and Natural Ecology
Year: 1993
Certifications
- Certificate of Specialization in Admiralty Law: Tulane University Law School 1998
Websites
https://www.keanmiller.com/karen-waters-shipman.html
Karen Waters Shipman's Website Profile
http://www.keanmiller.com/
Kean Miller LLP Website
Kean Miller LLP
New Orleans
909 Poydras Street, Suite 3600, New Orleans, LA 70112
(504) 585-3051