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Juris Doctor:
University of California, Boalt Hall School of Law, 1995
Order of the Coif
Editor-in-Chief, California Law Review
Thelen Marrin Award for Scholarship
Bachelor of Arts, highest honors:
University of California, Berkeley, 1991
Phi Beta Kappa
Member:
State Bar of California
• Business Law Section
• Intellectual Property Section
• Partnership and Limited Liability Companies Committee of the Business Law Section
Marin County Bar Association (Director, Program Chair) |
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Business Law · Intellectual Property · Employment Law
Jessica Karner’s transactional practice emphasizes corporate, partnership and business law, mergers & acquisitions, entity choice and formation, securities regulation, secured lending, intellectual property and executive compensation. Representative matters include the sale of a software company, the acquisition of an investment advisory firm with approximately $800 million in assets under management, the sale of a multi-facility healthcare company, the acquisition of a mobile content company, HUD-insured and securitized commercial lending matters, and corporate restructures. She counsels clients on a variety of other matters, including consulting and other service agreements, employment contracts, and buy-sell agreements. Ms. Karner is AV®-rated* by Martindale-Hubbell.
Ms. Karner began her legal career in 1995 at Folger Levin & Kahn LLP in San Francisco, California, where she practiced corporate law and civil litigation. She joined the firm in September 2000 and became a partner in January 2007.
Ms. Karner is the author of “Political Speech, Sexual Harassment, and a Captive Workforce,” 83 California Law Review 637, 1995, for which she received the Thelen Marrin Award for Scholarship.
A Marin County native, Ms. Karner resides in Kentfield, California, with her husband and three children.
* CV, BV and AV are registered certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies.
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