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Karen Dixon

Karen M. Dixon

Partner

  • Chicago
  • 312.946.4233
  • 312.946.4272
Biography
Karen Dixon devotes her practice to counseling insurers on complex insurance coverage issues and litigating coverage matters on their behalf under commercial general liability, professional liability, pollution liability, and workers compensation and employers liability insurance policies. She institutes as well as defends coverage litigation on an insurer’s behalf, ranging from opioids, sexual abuse, to Biometric Information Privacy Act claims.
 
In addition, Karen has a counseling practice focused on advising an insurer throughout the entire claim handling process. She has substantial experience in working with clients on making coverage determinations, drafting coverage position letters, selecting defense counsel, coordinating cost share agreements and pursuing other sources of recovery.

Karen is a Chambers USA Ranked lawyer, client feedback describes her as “a great strategic thinker” with “a burgeoning reputation among insurers for her expertise in mass tort, personal injury, and data privacy matters.” Clients also note, “Karen is a terrific coverage lawyer who is both pragmatic and thoughtful in her approach,” and she is known for providing “opinions and findings with confidence and regularly offers recommendations on the best path forward.”
 

Honors

  • Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, Insurance: Dispute Resolution-Illinois, 2022 - present
  • AV® Preeminent Peer Review Rating, Martindale-Hubbell, its highest rating for ethics and legal ability
  • American College of Coverage Counsel, Fellow
  • The Best Lawyers in America®, Insurance Law, 2021 - present 
  • Leading Lawyers, 2017-2019



Professional Associations

  • American Bar Association
  • DRI
  • Union League Club of Chicago
  • IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law – Alumni Board of Directors, 2012-2018
Education
J.D., with highest honors, Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law, 1997
Order of the Coif
B.A., University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1993
Bar admissions
Illinois
Nebraska
U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Seventh Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Third Circuit
U.S. District Court for the
Eastern District of Wisconsin
U.S. District Court for the
Northern District of Florida
U.S. District Court for the
Northern District of Illinois
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of Illinois
U.S. District Court for the
Western District of Wisconsin
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of Indiana