Karen Persis

About

Karen Persis of Karen Persis, P.A. represents couples and individuals in matters involving assisted reproductive technology law and adoption. She has served Intended Parents on 5 continents. Ms. Persis has been practicing law since 2005, and is AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell. In 2016, she was invited to join the Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys, an organization with fewer than 200 attorneys worldwide who are selected based on their high ethical standards and professional competence. Ms. Persis was awarded the Lawrence G. Matthews Award for Professionalism by the Orange County Bar Association in 2017. From 2010-2018, Karen was selected as a “Rising Star” by Florida Super Lawyers, a distinction awarded to no more than 2.5% of lawyers under the age of 40 in Florida. In 2014 and 2017, Karen was also selected as a Florida Trend Legal Elite Up and Comer. Karen serves as an elected member of the Orange County Bar Association’s Executive Council. She currently serves on a Grievance Committee for The Florida Bar Asssociation, and previously was appointed by the Chief Judge of the Ninth Judicial Circuit to serve on the circuit’s Local Professionalism Panel. She served as President of the Young Lawyers Section of the Orange County Bar Association from 2014-2015, and has represented the Ninth Circuit as an elected Governor for The Florida Bar Association Young Lawyers Division from 2013-17. Throughout her service to the Florida Bar Association and the Orange County Bar Association, she has chaired more than a dozen committees and events, many of which served as fundraisers for local community organizations. Ms. Persis is also an active member of the American Bar Association’s Assisted Reproductive Technology Law committee, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine Legal Group, and RESOLVE. She graduated from the University of Florida Levin College of Law, in the top 10 percent of her class, in 2004. Prior to starting her legal career, Karen was a Fellow for the Women’s Research and Education Institute in Washington, D.C., where she worked on Capitol Hill, drafting and analyzing legislation affecting women and children. She graduated from the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communication in the top 5 percent of her class in 2001, with a Bachelor of Science in journalism and an outside concentration in women’s studies. In 2001, she was admitted into the University of Florida Hall of Fame.