Background
Smith, Karen M. was born in 1965 in West Covina, California, United States.
Smith, Karen M. was born in 1965 in West Covina, California, United States.
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (Bachelor of Science, with honors, 1987). University of Southern Florida. University of Tennessee (Juris Doctor, with honors, 1991).
Worked at Miller & Martin (Chattanooga, Tennessee) specializing in General Practice, Civil Trial and Appellant Practice in all State and Federal Courts. Administrative, Antitrust and Trade Regulation, Banking and Finance, Bankruptcy and Workouts, Business and Commercial, Construction, Employee Benefits, Estate Planning and Probate, Franchising, Labor Law (including National Labor Relations Board, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, FLSA and Contract Administration), and Employment Law (including Equal Employment Opportunity, ADEA, American Dental Association, OFCCP and State Employment Laws), Environmental, Health Care, Immigration, Intellectual Property, Mergers and Acquisitions, Not-Foreign-Profit, and Charitable Foundations, Real Estate, Securities, Tax Exempt Finance, Tax, Venture Capital and White Collar Crime. Admitted to the bar, 1991, Tennessee.
United States.
District Court, Eastern and Middle Districts of Tennessee. United States. Court of Appeals, Sixth and Eighth Circuits. University of California Foundation Leadership Scholarship, Academic Review Board.
Editor, Labor and Employment Law Newsletter for Tennessee Bar Association, 1992-1993.
Member: Chattanooga, Tennessee and American (Labor and Employment Law and Litigation Sections, Young Lawyers Divisions and Women Rainmakers" Interest Group) Bar Associations. The firm was founded by Colonel T. M. Burkett in 1867.
Colonel Burkett"s practice was continued by his nephew, White Burkett Miller, admitted to the Bar in 1889. Mr. Miller"s sons, Burkett and Vaughn Miller, the latter having served as law secretary to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes on the United States.
Supreme Court, continued their father"s practice.
F. Linton Martin and H. James Hitching, graduates of Columbia Law School joined the firm in 1923 and 1944. The firm today enjoys the distinction of being Chattanooga"s oldest and largest law firm.
Member: Chattanooga, Tennessee and American (Labor and Employment Law and Litigation Sections, Young Lawyers Divisions and Women Rainmakers" Interest Group) Bar Associations.