Kara Altenbaumer-Price
Associate

1717 Main Street
Suite 3700
Dallas TX 75201
P: 214.659.4453
F: 214.659.4763

Kara's experience includes representing clients in litigation, government investigations, and internal investigations with a specialization in SEC and DOJ enforcement. She has worked on a range of regulatory and financial issues including Foreign Corrupt Practices Act; revenue recognition and other accounting and financial reporting issues; insider trading; commercial bribery; investor advisor regulations; securities registration violations; Medicare and Medicaid fraud and Stark law violations; white collar criminal defense; and special litigation committee representation. She has spoken and written on the subjects of deferred prosecution, parallel investigations, and privilege issues in government and internal investigations. Prior to entering private practice, Kara was a law clerk for Texas Supreme Court Justices Craig Enoch and Scott Brister during the 2003 - 2004 term.

Articles / Publications

Author

  • "Pros and Cons of Deferred Prosecution Agreements," Executive Legal Adviser, (Jan/Feb 2006)
  • "Assessing Risks of Sharing Internal Inviestigations: Target firms cooperating with government risk waiving their privilege," National Law Journal, (March 21, 2005)


Co-Author - (with Supreme Court of Texas Justice Scott A. Brister, Susan Bostic and Roxanne Wilson,) "Texas Bar CLE's Practice Before the Texas Supreme Court," Supreme Court Update Supplement, (April 2004)

Featured - "From the Newsroom to the Courtroom," Texas Tech Lawyer magazine (Fall 2005)

Briefings, Seminars & Speeches

  • Moderator,  "The Legal and Ethical Issues of New Media: Blogs, Podcasts, Live Chats, Copyright & Libel, Newsgathering, Privacy"  Dallas Bar Association's Media Relations Committee, Dallas, TX (May 5, 2008)
  • Moderator, "Do's and Don't of Brief Writing," presented by the Dallas Association of Young Lawyers Judiciary Committee (May 21, 2008)
  • Co-presenter with J. Wiley George and Matthew Nielsen, "Best practices for transaction lawyers to preserve legal privilege and confidentiality: avoiding missteps," presented at the Andrews Kurth 2008 Corporate/Securities & Tax Retreat (May 17, 2008)

Professional / Civic Affiliations

Member

  • Dallas Association of Young Lawyers
    • 2005 Leadership Class
    • Chair, Judiciary Committee
  • Dallas Bar Association
    • Co-Chair, Media Relations Committee

Civic

  • March of Dimes Sponsorship Committee
  • Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program
  • Hugh O'Brian Youth Foundation
    • Board of Directors

Clerkships

  • the Honorable Craig T. Enoch, Texas Supreme Court, 2003
  • the Honorable Scott A. Brister, Texas Supreme Court, 2004

Media

"Kara Altenbaumer-Price is One to Watch," featured on the Dallas Association of Young Lawyers' website (April 2008).  Please click here to view the article.

Practice Areas
Education
  • JD, 2003, summa cum laude, Texas Tech University School of Law, Texas Tech Law Review, Articles Editor(2001 - 2003), Order of the Coif, Board of Barristers
  • Bachelor of Journalism, 1998, with Honors, The University of Texas, Daily Texan, Staff Member (1995 - 1997)
Admitted
  • Texas 2003
  • U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Eastern, Southern and Western Districts of Texas
  • U.S. Supreme Court
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
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