Karen Lee Torre

{{Short description|American lawyer}}

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Karen Lee Torre is an American attorney based in New Haven, Connecticut,{{cite web |title=Karen Lee Torre, Attorney |url=https://www.lawyer.com/karen-lee-torre.html |website=Lawyer.com |access-date=12 May 2023}} most notable for litigating the landmark Supreme Court case of Ricci v. DeStefano.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/us/30scotus.html|title=Supreme Court Finds Bias Against White Firefighters|newspaper=The New York Times|date=29 June 2009|last1=Liptak|first1=Adam}} The case was argued by Gregory Coleman before the United States Supreme Court.{{Cite web |title=[Ricci v. DeStefano] Court of Appeals Oral Argument {{!}} C-SPAN.org |url=https://www.c-span.org/video/?287320-1/ricci-v-destefano-court-appeals-oral-argument#:~:text=decide%20if%20city%E2%80%A6-,The%20U.S.%20Court%20of%20Appeals%20for%20the%20Second%20Circuit%20heard,and%20only%20two%20Hispanics%20passed. |access-date=2022-08-01 |website=www.c-span.org}}

Torre also represented a female firefighter who sued for sex discrimination in a successful appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.{{cite web| url = http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=900005517556| title = Law.com}}

She writes a weekly opinion column for the Connecticut Law Tribune.