Karla Mardueño

Senior Associate

  • Karla Mardueño
  • Phone: +1 312 499 6794

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  • Duane Morris LLP
    190 South LaSalle Street, Suite 3700
    Chicago, IL 60603-3433
    USA

Karla V. Mardueño is a senior associate in the firm's Employment, Labor, Benefits and Immigration Practice Group. She represents employers in a range of employment-related matters and draws on her litigation background to advise clients in complex disputes, internal investigations and regulatory matters. She also has experience handling immigration and other pro bono matters and is fluent in Spanish.

During law school, she served as editor-in-chief of the Howard Law Journal and was a student attorney in the Child Welfare & Family Justice Clinic.

Admissions

  • Illinois

Experience

  • Duane Morris LLP
    - Senior Associate, 2026-present
  • Latham & Watkins LLP
    - Litigation Associate, 2021-2026
  • Kirkland & Ellis LLP
    - Litigation Associate, 2019-2021
  • Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF)
    - Public Interest Law Initiative Fellow, 2019

Education

  • Howard University School of Law, J.D., 2019
  • Trinity College, B.A., 2015

Language Skill

  • Spanish