About
Karen Oakes turned into raised as an Army officer’s daughter — dwelling in numerous regions of the USA and Panama. Ms. Oakes turned into born in Michigan and has lived in Georgia, California, South Carolina, Virginia, and Idaho. While residing in California as a young adult, she married and started her own family. The own family elevated dramatically in 1984 whilst 3 nieces/nephew were delivered to the family.
During her 0.33 12 months of law faculty, Ms. Oakes become selected for a country wide function with the American Bar Association/Law Student Division as the pupil director of the country wide Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) software funded with the aid of the American Bar Association/Tax Section. During her third year of law faculty, Ms. Oakes traveled to over 13 conferences of scholar leaders and endorsed and trained the ones student leaders to go back to their regulation schools and start low earnings taxpayer help applications at their law faculties. Ms. Oakes graduated together with her juris doctorate in 1998 and relocated all over again—this time to Klamath Falls, Oregon.
In 1998, Ms. Oakes time-honored the location of law clerk to the five circuit court docket judges of Klamath County and one circuit court choose of Lake County. In 1999, Ms. Oakes started paintings as a deputy district legal professional at the Klamath County District Lawyer’s Office, focusing on home violence prosecution. prosecution. Also in 1999, Ms. Oakes started teaching at the Oregon Institute of Technology as an accessory professor in the paralegal research program.
During a county finances disaster in 2001, Ms. Oakes’s function turned into laid off and he or she started her personal exercise in September 2001, as a widespread practice legal offerings office. From 2001 thru 2004, the instances treated by way of the office were often family regulation, property making plans and landlord-tenant (representing tenants). Currently, the practice is a patron protection corporation, solely dealing with financial disaster instances, FDCPA cases, and estate making plans.
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Location
Legal Issues
- Bankruptcy
- Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, Chapter 13 Bankruptcy, Chapter 7 Bankruptcy, Debt Relief
- Consumer Law
- Class Action, Lemon Law
- Estate Planning
- Guardianship & Conservatorship, Health Care Directives, Trusts, Wills
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Accepted Jurisdictions
Experience
- President
Bankruptcy Law Network
2012
Educations
Graduation year: 1995
