The O'Keefes named Read and two bars the couple visited in the hours before his death in a lawsuit seeking an unspecified sum of more than $50,000.

Read was convicted of drunken driving, however, for which she will face a year’s probation.

Prominent attorney Hank Brennan was paid more than half a million dollars to serve as a special prosecutor in the retrial of Karen Read, who was acquitted last month of charges she killed her Boston p...