Karen Young

Senior Attorney at Keches Law Group
Bridgewater, MA

About Karen Young

Attorney Young joined Keches Law Group in 2021. She zealously represents clients in seeking Social Security Disability and Supplemental Security Income benefits. Attorney Young began her legal career as an Assistant District Attorney in Bristol County, Massachusetts. She served in the Appellate Division, arguing cases before the Appeals Court of Massachusetts and district courts.

After leaving the district attorney’s office, Attorney Young worked as a sole practitioner, representing clients in civil and criminal appeals. In addition, Attorney Young litigated civil commitment hearings and appeals in the District and Appellate Division of the District Court. She also represented clients in guardianship proceedings in the Plymouth and Bristol County Probate & Family Courts. Before practicing law, Attorney Young adjudicated Social Security Disability claims for the office of Disability Determination Services.

Her many years of experience as a senior social security disability examiner have provided her with a broad-based knowledge of the tools necessary to effectively represent clients in pursuing Social Security Disability benefits. Attorney Young is a member of the Bristol County Bar Association and National Organization of Social Security Claimants’ Representatives (NOSSCR). We’re just a call or click away if you need help.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Keches Law Group

These results are credited to Keches Law Group. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

After winning a $26.6 million jury verdict for a union mason who fell through defective scaffolding on the Longfellow Bridge, Andrew Abraham of Keches Law Group returned to court and proved that Liberty Mutual's insurers willfully refused to investigate or settle a clear liability case, prompting a judge to double the compensatory judgment to over $91 million under Chapter 93A and 176D.

Suffolk Superior Court, Boston MA · 2025Workplace InjuryRead the full story →

A Middlesex County jury awarded $26.6 million to union mason John Rooney, Jr. after he fell through a two-foot scaffold gap during the Longfellow Bridge rehabilitation and suffered seven spinal operations and permanent disability, with pre-judgment interest bringing the total compensatory judgment to roughly $45.5 million.

Middlesex Superior Court, Woburn MA · 2021Workplace InjuryRead the full story →
$9.5 millionVerdict

A Hampden County jury awarded $9.5 million to the adult daughters of Zoe Rosenthal, a 52-year-old Holyoke teacher fatally struck in a crosswalk by a visually impaired driver in 2017, in what attorneys described as a record non-economic wrongful-death verdict with adult heirs in Western Massachusetts.

Hampden Superior Court, Springfield MA · 2021Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

Keches Law Group filed a class action on behalf of hundreds of donor families after a Harvard Medical School morgue manager stole and sold human remains, and in October 2025 the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court unanimously ruled that claims against Harvard could proceed.

Suffolk Superior Court / SJC, Boston MA · 2025Premises LiabilityRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Education

Southern New England School of Law, Dartmouth, MA
J.D.
University of Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Massachusetts

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