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Karen R. Frostrom
Member,
California and Arizona Bar
 
2007 Outstanding Trial Lawyer Award
Sarka Southern, Ph.D v. Regents of the University of California

2006 Outstanding Trial Lawyer Award
City of San Diego v. Mesdaq

 


Karen R. Frostrom
Karen R. Frostrom practices in the areas of business litigation,
municipal redevelopment, land use, eminent domain, condemnation/eminent domain, and contracts. She is admitted to practice in all California and Arizona State Courts and in all state and federal courts, both superior courts and appellate courts, in California.

Ms. Frostrom has litigated trials to verdict in San Diego and Orange County and has also handled both appellate writs and direct appeals. She has also made appearances before various government agencies to advocate for client rights.

Ms. Frostrom received her B.A. summa cum laude in Political Science, with a minor in Philosophy, from San Diego State University, then attended California Western School of Law on a full scholarship and received her J.D. magna cum laude. During her first year of law school, Ms. Frostrom placed first in the school-wide David M. Gill advocacy competition. She was a member of both the National Appellate Team and the Gafford Trial Team, and received the Mahoney Scholarship for Trial Advocacy in recognition of her competition team performance. Ms. Frostrom served as an extern to the Honorable Rudi Brewster of the Southern District of California. She has clerked at the U.S. Attorney's Office and the Department of the Navy. Her current memberships include the American Bar Association, the State Bar of California, the State Bar of Arizona, the San Diego County Bar Association, the San Diego Lawyers Club, Consumer Attorneys of San Diego, the American Board of Trial Lawyers, the Association of Business Trial Lawyers, Consumer Attorneys of California, and Inn of Court. Ms. Frostrom is active with the Conference of Delegates of California Bar Associations, serving as the Chair of the San Diego Lawyers' Club delegation and Chair for the San Diego Bar Association.  She is currently the Vice Chair of the San Diego County Bar Eminent Domain committee, a member of the Consumer Attorneys' Membership Committee, and is serving on the Resolutions Committee of the Conference of Delegates.

In November 2006 Ms. Frostrom was honored by her peers with an Outstanding Trial Lawyer Award for Mesdaq v. City of San Diego et al, a complex eminent domain case.  In November 2007, she was awarded the Outstanding Trial Lawyer Award for Southern v. University of California, a matter involving breach of contract of a grant award.
 

frostrom@tbmlawyers.com

 

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