Karen L. Hart is a business attorney with over 20 years of experience litigating commercial and real estate disputes.
 
Karen counsels clients on creditor’s rights issues, real estate and landlord-tenant matters as well as various other contract and business disputes. She is a tireless advocate for her clients, providing guidance on business legal matters, such as lease, purchase and sale, brokerage and property management disputes, specific performance claims, commercial evictions, lis pendens, lien and bond claims, lien priority disputes, promissory note claims, commercial foreclosures, bankruptcy claims, professional ethics and liability matters, bills of review, confidentiality, non-competition and non-solicitation agreements and related disputes and injunctive proceedings, and business tort claims, including tortious interference with contracts and business relationships, civil theft, fraud, and misappropriation of trade secret claims.
 
Prior to joining Bell Nunnally, Karen served as a law clerk to the Honorable Hayden Head, Jr., United States District Court, Southern District of Texas, Corpus Christi Division. Karen is an honors graduate of the University of Texas at Austin School of Law. Karen also serves as Bell Nunnally’s General Counsel.
 
Karen’s accolades include: Texas Super Lawyer, Texas Monthly (Thomson Reuters) (2022-24); Dallas Best Lawyers, D Magazine (2022-24); Best Lawyers® in America (2017-2024); Litigation Star, Benchmark Litigation (2021, 2022); Best Lawyers® Texas’ Best Lawyers (2020); Dallas Top 50 Women Lawyers Award, Texas Diversity Council (2017); Winning Women Award, Texas Lawyer (2014); Women in Business Award, Dallas Business Journal (2012).

Karen is a long-time NACM member, supporter and educator.