About Karen P.

Karen P. Wackerman built a legal foundation in the Northeast. She graduated from Smith College in 1979 and earned her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School in 1985. Those early years set the stage for a profession that has moved among personal practice, firm counsel roles and community service.

She began her professional legal career in 1985 as an affiliate at Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts, a firm now called Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. That role brought her to company-aspect practice at a large countrywide firm. In the mid-Nineteen Nineties she served as a clinical professor, a position that shows a turn towards law school training and mentoring, though the document does now not listing the organization.

Wackerman’s practice then shifted to a collection of in-house counsel and of-counsel roles at Connecticut firms. She used to be Of Counsel at Cohen and Wolf starting in 2003, joined Cummings & Lockwood LLC as counsel in 2008, and later served as counsel at Jeffers Cowherd, P.C. in 2014. In 2016 she took on a counsel role at Pullman & Comley, LLC. Records additionally show an association with Wackerman Law, LLC starting in 2010.

Her memberships and volunteer roles run along her practice. She has been concerned with the Fairfield County Bar Association for years and has served as Co-Chair of its Business Law Section since 2013. She belongs to the Connecticut Bar Association and the American Bar Association. Locally, she has been active with the Fairfield Network of Executive Women, where she once served as Publicity Chair, and with the Visiting Nurse & Hospice of Fairfield County, Inc., where she has held leadership as a former chairman of the board. She was additionally a member of the Greater Bridgeport Bar Association at some point of 2013–2014.

Wackerman is licensed to practice in each Connecticut and New York. Her career trail indicates steady movement among company practice and advisory counsel roles, suggesting experience in transactional and business-associated legal issues. She has combined practice, teaching and civic involvement throughout Connecticut’s legal community.

As of the most modern records, she has labored in the Pullman & Comley office and remains engaged in local bar things to do. She practices in Connecticut and New York, concentrating on business law and related transactional matters.

Education

Brooklyn Law School

J.D.

1985

Smith College

A.B.

1979

Experience

Counsel

Pullman & Comley, LLC
2016

Counsel

Jeffers Cowherd, P.C.
2014

has membership

Wackerman Law, LLC
2010

Counsel

Cummings & Lockwood LLC
2008

Of Counsel

Cohen and Wolf
2003

Clinical Professor

1995

Associate

Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (now Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman)
1985

Accepted Jurisdictions

Connecticut
New York

Professional Associations

Fairfield County Bar Association

Co-Chair, Business Law Section 2013 - Current

Connecticut Bar Association

has membership 2013 - Current

Fairfield County Bar Association

has membership and Co-Chair of Business Law Section 2013 - Current

Fairfield Network of Executive Women

has membership, former Publicity Chair 2008 - Current

Visiting Nurse & Hospice of Fairfield County, Inc.

has membership, former Chairman of the Board 2003 - Current

American Bar Association

has membership 2003 - Current

Greater Bridgeport Bar Association

has membership 2013 - 2014

Office Locations

Main Office

 850 Main Street P.O. Box 7006 BRIDGEPORT CT 06601-7006