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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 (President 2012)
· Member of Business Law, Intellectual Property and Diversity Sections
American Inns of Court, Richard M. Sangster Chapter
Jessica Karner's transactional practice emphasizes corporate, partnership and business law, mergers & acquisitions, entity choice and formation, business dissolutions and divorces, securities regulation, secured lending, real estate transactions, intellectual property and executive compensation. Recent representative matters include the sale of a software company, the acquisition of a technology services company, and a non-profit merger; other representative matters include 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. In addition, Ms. Karner acts as outside general counsel to companies in a wide variety of industries. She is AV® PreeminentTM-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 received the Thelen Marrin Award for Scholarship for "Political Speech, Sexual Harassment, and a Captive Workforce," 83 California Law Review 637, 1995, and with Stafford Keegin co-authored "Baskets and Snakes: Allocating Risk Through Representation, Warranty and Indemnification Provisions," The Marin Lawyer, Marin County Bar Association, November 2008, addressing risk allocation issues between parties to a range of transactions, including business acquisition, real estate purchase, licensing and leasing agreements.
A Marin County native, Ms. Karner resides in Kentfield, California, with her husband and three children.
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