Karren M. Kenney

About Karren M. Kenney

Karren M. Kenney is the founding attorney of Kenney Legal Defense in Costa Mesa, California, and a federal criminal defense trial lawyer who has first-chaired more than 100 jury trials in state and federal court. For more than three decades she has defended people facing serious charges ranging from wire fraud and RICO to murder. Since 2014 she has served on the Criminal Justice Act Panel for the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, and she has tried federal cases in the Central and Southern Districts of California and in Washington, D.C. She is a Certified Fraud Examiner, which she uses to analyze financial records and money trails in fraud cases, and she often represents clients early, during federal agency investigations before any indictment. Her practice also covers white collar and complex state criminal matters. She received her law degree from Thomas Jefferson School of Law.

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California State Bar No. 174872 (Active admitted 1994-12-09)