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About Karen Hughes
Karen J. Hughes is a lifelong Little Rock native. She earned her psychology degree from the University of Arkansas before attending the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law, where she was hired as a law clerk at Laser Law Firm during school. She graduated in 1989 and practiced insurance defense litigation for 15 years at Laser Law Firm, then joined former partners at Watts, Donovan & Tilley in 2004, followed by Smith, Williams & Meeks, LLP, eventually becoming a partner.
In 2020 she joined Rainwater, Holt & Sexton to apply her insurance background to representing injured Arkansans. She has been recognized in Best Lawyers in America and is a member of Litigation Counsel of America and The National Trial Lawyers Honorary Society. She was inducted into the American Board of Trial Advocates in 2007 and served as Arkansas Chapter President for 2024.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Rainwater, Holt & Sexton Injury Lawyers
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Rainwater, Holt and Sexton was one of the founding firms on the coalition legal team that brought 72 Arkansas counties and 210 cities together to sue 65 opioid manufacturers, distributors, and retailers, part of the litigation that produced a $216 million statewide share of the national settlement announced in 2021.
A Benton County judge awarded $25.4 million, including more than $19 million in punitive damages, against the owner of a Springdale motel after finding it knowingly facilitated the repeated sex trafficking of a girl beginning when she was 14 years old.
On December 10, 2013, Aisha Siddiqui, a 22-year-old aspiring surgeon visiting from New York, had her right big toe torn off when her foot was pulled into an escalator at Park Plaza Mall in Little Rock. Park Plaza and the escalator maker Kone admitted fault before trial and contested only the amount. After a three-day trial, a Pulaski County jury awarded $3 million in December 2018.
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