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Karen M. Lockwood
1299 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20004
+1 202.383.7481
+1 202.383.6610 (Fax)
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Karen Lockwood has led and managed complex commercial trials, arbitrations and appeals for nearly thirty years. She has served as coordinating counsel for multijurisdictional litigation and has frequently managed complex litigation with multiple teams, coordinating the activities of firm, in-house and local counsel to achieve successful outcomes.
Ms. Lockwood’s commercial litigation experience encompasses contract, tort and statutory claims across a wide variety of industries and causes of action. She is experienced in counseling and negotiations in a wide variety of commercial matters, including telecommunications, contract and tort issues, and also practices arbitration and alternative dispute resolution.
Ms. Lockwood’s style of practice is grounded in her creativity in pursuit of “the core of the matter”—both the source of the dispute and the keys to resolution. In her client work, she abides by core values focused on clients’ business interests: recognition that general counsel must quickly make sound and strategic decisions; respect for the depth of knowledge owned by both corporate counsel and their business clients; and understanding of the returns gained from both strong advocacy and team communication.
Ms. Lockwood is a nationally recognized thought leader in the advancement of professional women and is respected as a trusted voice on positive measures to change the profession to improve access and open career-advancing opportunities for women professionals.
"Howrey combines the best of rigor, collaboration, creativity and strategy. In our client work, and internally, we are surrounded by lawyers and professionals who make decisions focused on these goals. With these qualities, the firm’s character and resources magnify my abilities, offering to clients the best in legal representation."
Representative Highlights
- GTE. Represented general counsel in connection with arbitrations under 1996 Telecommunications Act; advised on corporate position in hundreds of CLEC/ILEC arbitrations nationwide; coordinated implementation of policy on arbitration positions with regional corporate counsel; worked with GTE in-house technical experts while developing corporate positions; supervised team of over fifteen outside counsel. Negotiated interconnection agreements, drafted standardized terms for use by client’s teams of negotiators.
- DuPont Plaza Hotel Fire Litigation. Multidistrict litigation in Puerto Rico involving 2.500 plaintiffs and over 250 defendants, suspension of Rule 56 by the trial judge after the filing of motion for summary judgment. Intensive investigation and research, strategic judgment in positioning defendant for successful disposition, retaining and working with preeminent HVAC expert witness, taking mandamus petition to First Circuit.
- Mobil Chemical Co. Coordinating counsel for nine simultaneous suits by State Attorneys General on claims of false advertising related to design and sell of degradable trash bags; designed and wrote winning brief defeating federal question under the RICO statute in Brittingham v. Mobil Chemical Co., 943 F.2d 297 (3d Cir. 1991).
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Admissions
- District of Columbia, 1978
Courts & Adjudicative Bodies
- United States District Court for the District of Columbia
- United States District Court for the District of Maryland
- United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- United States Court of Federal Claims
- United States Court of International Trade
- United States Supreme Court
Education
- American University, Washington College of Law (JD, 1978) cum laude Outstanding Graduate Award. Am.U.L.Rev., Senior Articles Editor (1977-78)
- College of Wooster (BA, 1972) with honors Galpin Prize to Outstanding Graduate
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