Karen Carr is a Partner in the Complex Litigation practice and Co-Leader of the Agricultural Technology group in Arent Fox LLP’s Washington, DC office. She counsels, advocates, and litigates on behalf of food and agriculture companies and trade groups, with a focus on environmental law, agricultural technology, biotechnology, pesticides and other chemical substances, and food. Karen represents regulated entities in litigation under a number of federal environmental and administrative law statutes, on regulatory and product counseling, and on issues related to advertising and labeling, testing and reporting, and data use and compensation disputes. In addition to her work with individual companies, Karen has represented a number of industry associations in litigation, coordination of industry regulatory strategy, and federal and state legislative issues. Karen has first- and second-chaired matters in numerous state and federal trial and appellate courts throughout the country and in arbitration and mediation, and has experience in all phases of litigation, from pre-litigation strategy and counseling to settlement negotiation and appeals.

Before joining Arent Fox, Karen served as a law clerk for the Honorable James P. Jones, then-Chief Judge of the US District Court for the Western District of Virginia. She received her BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her JD from the University of Oregon School of Law.