Karen S. Steinhauser
Aurora Municipal Court
Honorable Karen Steinhauser, is an adjunct law professor, a part-time judge, and a trial lawyer. She has worked as a prosecutor for 21 years, a full-time law professor at the University of Denver, and as of- Counsel and Shareholder in private law firms, handling family, criminal and civil litigation. She also owned her own law firm. As a prosecutor, she helped start the Domestic Violence Unit, and specialized in prosecuting sexual assault on children and adult sexual assault cases. As a trial lawyer for 42 years, she has tried over 300 jury trials. She is an adjunct professor at the University of Denver Sturm college of Law where she has taught Evidence and Trial Advocacy for the past 32 years and has been a faculty member of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy for approximately 32 years, training lawyers both nationally and internationally in various aspects of litigation including taking effective depositions and trial skills advocacy. Karen provides implicit/unconscious bias training to lawyers and non-lawyers in government agencies and private businesses. She serves on the Diversity on the Bench Committee through the Colorado Bar Association and Colorado Judicial Institute. She is also a former board chair and Emeritus member of the Anti-Defamation League.
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