Attorneys

Karen L. Jacobsen
Partner

Karen Jacobsen started Jacobsen & McElroy in 1998 and previously she had been a partner with Thompson & Heller. During her 24 year legal career Karen has handled the defense of complex legal matters including construction defect, premises liability, product liability, motor vehicle accidents and other commercial matters. She works with insurance companies, third party administrators, self-insured clients and business clients. Karen was selected in 2010 and 2011 as a "Super Lawyer".

Karen is a 1983 graduate of the University of Pacific School of Business. She attended UOP on a volleyball and basketball scholarship, where she played on the nationally ranked UOP volleyball team. She subsequently returned to her hometown of Sacramento, where she obtained her law degree from McGeorge School of Law at the University of Pacific in 1986. She graduated with distinction, and was Order of the Coif, and a lifetime member of the Traynor Honor Society, as well as a staff writer and editor of the Pacific Law Journal.

Karen is very active in legal organizations. She was the 2010 President of the Association of Defense Counsel of Northern California and Nevada and she continues on the Board in 2011 as Past President. She has been on the ADC Board since 2002. She is also a member of the Anthony M. Kennedy Inn of Court and she is on the Inn's Executive Committee. The organization is made up of Federal, State and Appellate Judges/Justices and civil and criminal attorneys and is dedicated to increasing professionalism, civility and ethics among members of the bench and bar.

Karen also serves as a Settlement Conference Judge and Arbitrator for the Sacramento County Superior Court; as a Settlement Conference Judge for El Dorado Superior Court and Placer County Superior Courts and as a mediator/neutral for the Eastern District Federal Court's Voluntary Dispute Resolution Program. She also previously served on the Board of the Women Lawyers of Sacramento for many years and is a member of the Sacramento County Bar and the American Bar Associations. Karen is a charter member of the Eastern District Historical Society previously served as a member of the University of the Pacific National Commission.

Finally, Karen was also previously selected by the Sacramento Bee as one of the top 50 all time prep girl basketball players in the Greater Sacramento Area and in 2011 was awarded the University of the Pacific's Amos Alonzo Stagg Award given to a student athlete who has lead a life of distinction by demonstrating integrity, dedication, idealism and team spirit.