Kahle Law Office

Karen Kahle is licensed to practice law in State and federal courts throughout West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania, as well as the United States Supreme Court.  Karen is also a Registered Pharmacist in the State of West Virginia. 

Contact Karen at kkahle@wheelinglegal.com or call (304) 232-2970. 

Karen has been practicing law since 1990.  She focuses on civil litigation, specifically, commercial (business) litigation, natural gas litigation, breach of contract litigation and product liability litigation.   Currently, Karen works part time as a civil litigator while also working part time as an assistant prosecuting attorney for Ohio County, West Virginia. 

Over the years, Karen has received many honors for her legal work, most recently being named one of the Best Lawyers in America annually since 2010, in the fields of commercial litigation, product liability litigation-defendants, mass tort litigation/class actions-defendants and personal injury litigation-defendants, including being honored as 2019 Lawyer of the Year, Morgantown region, for mass tort litigation/class actions-defendants.

Karen is devoted to service work, serving on many non-profit boards of directors over the years.  Most important to her is the work she has done to assist her impaired colleagues in the State of West Virginia.  Karen was the driving force behind the Supreme Court’s enactment of the West Virginia Rules of Judicial and Lawyer Assistance Program and has served on its Board of Directors’ Executive Committee since its inception in 2012. 

Karen is also involved on a national level through many years spent as an active member of the American Bar Association's Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs.   

In July 2018, Karen was honored to receive the West Virginia State Bar Board of Governors’ 2018 Achievement Award for Judicial and Lawyer Assistance Program. 

In addition, in March 2018, Karen was one of the leaders of the West Virginia Bar named by the Supreme Court to serve on the West Virginia Task Force on Lawyer Well-Being. 

Karen and her two children reside in Wheeling.