Karen DeSoto

Ms. Karen DeSoto is a woman who represents her community, her heritage, her generation, and her gender through her various accomplishments in her career and philanthropic efforts. By proving her leadership capabilities in nearly every aspect of her life, Karen DeSoto distinguishes herself as a role model to other young members of her home state of New Jersey.

Though Ms. DeSoto received two degrees from neighboring Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's Temple University (her Juris Doctorate and her Master's of Laws degree concentrating in Trial Advocacy), the majority of Karen DeSoto's legal career has taken place within the confines of the Garden State. Ms. Karen DeSoto, Esq., has served as a Criminal Defense Attorney in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, a Municipal Public Defender in Raritan Borough and North Plainfield, New Jersey, and has represented clients under the auspices of various New Jersey firms, including a boutique firm in Somerset County concentrating in civil and criminal litigation.

Today, Karen DeSoto owns her own law practice, the Bayonne, New Jersey-based Law Offices of Karen F. DeSoto. DeSoto's practice specializes in the areas of employment discrimination, civil rights, and election law. Due to a background of legal experience that includes both criminal and civil litigation, Karen DeSoto is well known in her field as an attorney with a remarkably well-rounded legal expertise.

As a television legal analyst (Karen DeSoto appears weekly on MSNBC and annually on Court TV), Ms. DeSoto shares her well-developed legal knowledge base with a wide audience through her discussions on fact-specific legal strategies and theories and interviews with guests and correspondents on breaking news on high profile cases.