Medical Malpractice Attorney Karen E. Evans Earns Highest Peer Review Rating From Martindale-Hubbell

WASHINGTON - May 6, 2014 - PRLog -- The Cochran Firm, D.C. today announces that medical malpractice attorney and partner Karen E. Evans has received the prestigious AV Preeminent Peer Review Rating from Martindale-Hubbell. This is the highest available rating for ethics and legal ability for an individual attorney. Martindale-Hubbell, the 130-year-old publisher, also listed Evans as a 2014 Washington, D.C. and Baltimore Top Rated Lawyer.

Throughout her 23-year career as trial attorney, Evans has successfully prosecuted a wide variety of high-stakes litigation matters involving medical negligence and other catastrophic injuries. From 1995 to 2000, she successfully defended and won in excess of 92% of all serious medical malpractice cases tried to jury verdict.  Since 2000, she has used the combination of her experience as a registered nurse and zealous trial advocacy skills to pursue claims on behalf of her clients.  Karen has successfully tried and settled numerous cases in the seven and eight-figure ranges.

Karen is an active member of the Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington, D.C. and is the Immediate Past President and continues to serves on its Executive Committee.  She is also an active member of the Washington Bar Association and is currently 1st Vice President. She also serves as President of the Washington Bar Association Educational Foundation.  With an AV Preeminent rating, she has been awarded the highest level of professional excellence by Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review.  She has been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America, Super Lawyers, The Bar Register of Preeminent Women Lawyers, The National Trial Lawyers, Top 100 Lawyers and the Washington Post, Baltimore and Washington D.C.’s Top Lawyers, among other honors.

Before law school, Karen was a Captain in the United States Air Force Nurse Corp and practiced medical/surgical and intensive care nursing for ten years.  She began her legal education at Texas Tech University School of Law where she was selected for Law Review. After her first year of study, she transferred to The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill School of Law and earned her Juris Doctorate (J.D.) in 1990.

Karen is also a member of the American Association of Nurse Attorneys and has been profiled and featured in its members’ recognition section. She has been an invited speaker and guest lecturer at the request of various legal associations and groups, including the D.C. Bar, The George Washington University Law Center, the Virginia Nurses Association, the D. C. Superior Court Judicial Training session committee, the DC Trial Lawyers Association, the Ohio Association for Justice and the Maryland Association for Justice. Ms. Evans is a member of the state and federal Bars in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia.  She was an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law from 2005-2012 and she currently serves as a mediator for the D.C. Superior Court.

About The Cochran Firm

With decades of collective legal experience, the team of seasoned attorneys at The Cochran Firm represents victims of catastrophic personal injury, mass tort, class action, low testosterone products, and product liability in the Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, D.C. metropolitan regions and nationwide.  The qualified legal professionals with The Cochran Firm bring experienced, high-caliber legal expertise to ordinary citizens who have been injured by others’ careless actions.  Attorneys with The Cochran Firm were selected as 2013 and 2014 Super Lawyers and have received top ratings from their peers, local and national publications and organizations, and clients for achieving successful verdicts and settlements for injury victims.