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Karen A. Perry is the firm’s resident partner at their 80 Plains Road office in Essex, Connecticut. She graduated from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 1994, and practices in the areas of trust and estates, probate, real estate, personal injury, and land use and zoning. Prior to joining the firm, Karen had her own firm located in Killingworth. She also practiced for over a decade at Robinson & Cole LLP in Hartford, Connecticut. While at Robinson & Cole, she handled a variety of land use and environmental cases, from transactional work, zoning and wetlands permitting, compliance issues, to complex state and federal environmental litigation.
Karen wrote an environmental mystery, called The Green Beach File, which was published in 2020 and nationally distributed by Simon & Schuster. She holds a bachelor’s degree, with an interdepartmental major in economics /math from Union College. Her undergraduate economics thesis was presented at a National Symposium at the Caltech Institute of Technology. She was a member of the Economics Honor Society. Karen is a graduate of Wyoming Seminary, a college preparatory school in Kingston, Pennsylvania.
Karen lives in Killingworth, CT with her family. She has been an active member of the community and is a former Chair and member of Regional School District 17’s Board of Education. She currently serves on Killingworth’s Ethics Commission and has also served on the Killingworth Wetlands Commission, spent four years elected to the Killingworth Board of Assessment Appeals, and served a term as an Alternate on the Zoning Board of Appeals. Karen has also coached soccer for the Haddam Killingworth Soccer Club and baseball for the Killingworth Little League. She is also a past Chair of the Environmental Section of the Connecticut Bar Association.
