Karen A. Pickett

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=170 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <A HREF="id2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Us"><U><B><IMG SRC="14492270.jpg" border=0 width="146" height="39" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><A HREF="id4.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Practice Areas"><U><B><IMG SRC="14592270.jpg" border=0 width="146" height="39" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><A HREF="id5.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="In the News"><U><B><IMG SRC="14792270.jpg" border=0 width="146" height="39" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><A HREF="id6.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us"><U><B><IMG SRC="14892270.jpg" border=0 width="146" height="39" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="13ca0c80.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="200" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="|D|C|G|"><U><IMG SRC="14d5e220.jpg" border=0 width="94" height="34" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A> </div> <div> <A HREF="id10.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Our Attorneys"><U>Our Attorneys</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="T. Christopher Donnelly"><U>T. Christopher Donnelly</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="James B. Conroy"><U>James B. Conroy</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id15.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Peter E. Gelhaar"><U>Peter E. Gelhaar</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id16.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Jeffrey L. Levy"><U>Jeffrey L. Levy</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Barry S. Pollack"><U>Barry S. Pollack</U></A>   |   <B>Karen A. Pickett</B>   |   <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Virginia M. Swindell"><U>Virginia M. Swindell</U></A></div> <div> <I>Karen A. Pickett</I></div> <div> 617-720-2880 x.20      <A HREF="mailto:kap@dcglaw.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:kap@dcglaw.com"><U>kap@dcglaw.com</U></A></div> <bR> <div> Karen A. Pickett concentrates her practice in the fields of while collar criminal defense, employment litigation, intellectual property litigation, and commercial litigation.</div> <bR> <div> After graduating <I>cum laude</I> with a degree in economics from  the College of the Holy Cross, Ms. Pickett volunteered for a year of public service  with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, which assigned her to work as a paralegal at the Legal Action Center in Seattle, Washington.  Ms. Pickett then attended Northeastern University School of Law where she was named head teaching assistant in Legal Practice, a legal research, writing and advocacy class and also was a teaching assistant to a first year criminal law class.  During her time at Northeastern, Ms. Pickett was selected as a Judicial Extern to the Honorable Eugene A. Wright, Justice of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, for whom she did legal research and drafted opinions and bench memoranda.  </div> <bR> <div> After earning her J.D. degree in 1995, Ms. Pickett began her legal career as an Assistant Public Defender in the New Hampshire Public Defender’s office where she gained invaluable trial experience.  She then served for two years as a Judicial Law Clerk for the Honorable Benjamin Kaplan, Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court, for whom she researched and drafted opinions in a wide variety of civil and criminal appeals.  Following her clerkship, Ms. Pickett joined the Boston law firm of Hill & Barlow, P.C., served as an associate in its litigation department, and practiced as a member of its employment, professional malpractice, and criminal practice groups.</div> <bR> <div> Ms. Pickett is admitted to practice in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.  She is a member of the American, Boston, New Hampshire, and Women’s Bar Associations.<B>  </B> She serves as a volunteer attorney for the PAIR Project representing political asylum applicants, and also sits on the Board of Directors of Rebuilding Together Boston, Inc., a non-profit organization that rehabilitates homes of the elderly, disabled and poor in the city of Boston.  </div> </td> </tr></table></body>