Engineer, Esquire, Entrepreneur and Educator

is a very simplistic way to quickly identify Practically Legal Lifestyle’s Founder and Chief Education Officer Karen V. Mills.  Karen started her career after graduating with honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology with an electrical engineering degree and worked as an Electrical Engineer with a national utility and later earned the profession’s highest distinction by becoming a licensed Professional Engineer.  She then transitioned from Engineer to Esquire by obtaining her law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and rose from associate to partner at one of Atlanta, Georgia’s oldest law firms.

From there, she transitioned to her first venture as Entrepreneur - Mills Law, LLC, a boutique law firm located in Atlanta, Georgia where she is the founder and the managing member.  She counsels entrepreneurs and business owners on issues related to business formations and purchasing and selling businesses and a lot in between (usually, contract review, negotiation and drafting). Karen’s subsequent venture as an Entrepreneur is KVM Enterprises, LLC dba Miss Jenny’s Treats where she is the founder of this food products company featuring the signature product “Simply Divine Pecans.”

Karen’s final transition is from Entrepreneur to Educator, where she has served as an Adjunct Professor at Emory University’s School of Law, where she taught Contract Drafting.  She is also the co-author of a legal resource guide workbook: “Avoiding Business Conflicts: Five Important Contracts and Legal Documents for Entrepreneurs and Business Owners.” Recognizing the need for entrepreneurs and business owners to have quality and affordable informational resources that provide a practical legal and business foundation, Karen founded the Practically Legal Lifestyle™ initiative where she is now the Chief Education Officer.  She is ready to leverage all that she has learned over more than a quarter of a century with the Practical Legal Lifestyle™ initiative.