Karen Waters Shipman

Karen Waters Shipman is a partner in the New Orleans office of Kean Miller. Karen is an experienced litigator with particular experience in a wide variety of admiralty and oil & gas casualty and property damage issues, including Jones Act, personal injury, oil and gas exploration, well blowouts, reservoir damage, cargo damage, vessel collisions, vessel damage, platform damage, and barge damage. Her experience with oil and gas casualties and disputes are both offshore in the Gulf of Mexico and on land. Karen also has experience with drafting, reviewing, litigating, and arbitrating various maritime, commercial, and oil and gas commercial contracts, including charter agreements, contracts of affreightment, master services agreements, and royalty and operating agreements. She also has experience in construction law, arbitration, consumer credit reporting, product liability, and general personal injury litigation. Following law school, she served for one year as a judicial law clerk to the Hon. Fredericka H. Wicker of the Twenty-Fourth Judicial District Court for the Parish of Jefferson.

Karen was selected by New Orleans City Business as a 2011 Leadership in Law Award recipient and as a 2012 recipient of the Women of Year award. She was selected for inclusion in the 2013 edition of the Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Women Lawyers and is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell. Karen is listed in Louisiana Super Lawyers 2018 - 2019 and 2023.