Lawyer Profile

During the sixteen years prior to forming CHEN Law, LLC in 2011, Karl L. Chen began his legal career at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Division of Corporation Finance, where he left in 1997 as an attorney-adviser in that division to join Nextel Communications, Inc. as its securities and finance counsel. When he left Nextel in 2003 as Special Counsel, he joined Fannie Mae in its newly created Office of Corporate Compliance where he served as the Associate General Counsel. In 2006 he joined Watson Wyatt Worldwide, Inc. as their securities counsel where he advised the company and it's investment consulting practices on board matters, corporate governance and securities compliance under federal and securities laws in Canada, certain countries throughout Europe and Asia. He left after assisting the company in its $3.5 billion merger with Towers Perrin.

In 2011, Mr. Chen embarked on a journey to create a law firm that would service the needs of Maryland and Washington, D.C. individuals who were injured and entrepreneurs who wanted to achieve the American dream!