Oliver & Ginger
TEXT KAREN
Elite Plaintiff Communications

They're Litigating a Story.
You're Litigating a Case.

I make sure the case isn't the only thing being fought.

Before your complaint is ever filed, corporate defendants retain communications firms to manage press, shape jury pools, and control the public record. Most plaintiff attorneys never see that operation. I've spent 25 years on the other side of it, countering exactly this kind of defense strategy — everything except the jury itself. I never contact jurors, witnesses, or the venire.

Call / Text Karen — 415.359.4454 karen@oliverandginger.com

Free 24-hour check: what's the defense running against your specific case? No pitch, no email required.

Karen Campbell. Plaintiff-side litigation communications. Former Dow Jones reporter.
The Difference

Before and After the Narrative Work

Before the narrative work began, a mass tort matter at a major academic medical center was headed toward a standard settlement. After, it became a story of institutional accountability — for more than 9,000 claimants.

The lawyers won the case. I worked the story.
Terrorism Litigation

When the Defendant Is a Bank, Not a Bomber — the Victims Still Get Lost in the Story.

ATA and JASTA cases run a different track than most litigation: the defendant is often a financial institution or a foreign government accused of moving money to a terrorist organization, and the case can take a decade or more from filing to judgment to actual collection. By the time it makes news, coverage is almost always about the dollar figure and the defendant's name — the survivors and families become a footnote to their own case.

I work directly with survivors and families, always with consent, always on their timeline, to build the human story alongside the legal one — so when the case does make news, it's their story that lands, not just the number.

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The Check

Do You Know What's Blocking Your Clients From Finding You? I Do.

Using publicly available data from Google and Facebook's ad transparency tools, I check what the defense side is actually doing to intercept your claimants before they reach you.

What I'll Show You in 24 Hours

Send me your case name and the defendant. You'll get a real, plain-English check — not a pitch — of what's showing up against your specific case. No credit card, no email capture. If there's nothing there, I'll tell you that too. Anything that helps a plaintiff firm win is worth doing, whether or not you ever hire me.

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Geofencing

Whether targeted ads are running in the zip codes around the courthouse or your claimants' communities.

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Keyword Bidding

Whether your firm's name or case terms are being bid on to intercept your traffic.

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Fake or Lookalike Sites

Whether a spoof intake site is catching your claimants before they find you.

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Search Visibility

Whether your organic presence is being pushed down in the markets that matter.

This is a plain check on verifiable public ad data — not a claim about who is specifically retained on your matter, and not a substitute for discovery.

See what the check shows →

The Proof

A client brought me a case. Before the retainer was even signed, my proprietary search surfaced active HIPAA violations — happening in the open, online, right now. Not from discovery. Not from a subpoena. From a search only I know how to run. That's leverage you didn't know you had, found before you'd filed a single page.

Who I Am, Plainly

Who I Am, Plainly

25 years in plaintiff-side litigation communications. Before that, a reporter at Dow Jones — I know how a story gets placed because I spent years deciding whether to place one. I answer my own phone; the person you talk to is the person doing the work.

Hopkins is the case people ask about (see above) — full detail and lead counsel's own words are on the Experience page. What matters here is the same thing every time: the lawyers win the case, I work the story, and you always have my direct line.

Case outcomes depend on the specific facts of each matter; past results do not guarantee a similar outcome in future cases.

Send your case name and the defendant — free check, no credit card, no email required. Within 24 hours you'll know what's running against you.

Meet Karen → Text Karen — 415.359.4454
How I Work Your Case

Four Things I Actually Do, in Order, on Every Matter.

Full 12-point system detail lives on The System page — this is the home-page version, no jargon, no codenames.

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Before You File

I check what's running against your case before your complaint is filed, using the same public-data check described above.

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One Story

I build the narrative frame your case runs on, so the defense isn't the only one shaping how it's understood.

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Standing Watch

I personally monitor how the story develops through discovery and motions practice, and brief you the moment something shifts. This is my ongoing work, not an automated feed — you're reaching me, not a dashboard.

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At the Table

Going into mediation or a bellwether window, you know what public narrative pressure is doing to the case, because I've been tracking it the whole way.

Text Karen — 415.359.4454
How This Scales

I Answer My Own Phone. For Clients.

Not for every survivor in a nine-thousand-person class — nobody can do that, and anyone who tells you they can is lying to you.

Here's what's actually true: you get me. Direct line, every time you call, no gatekeeper. That's the promise to the firm that retains me, and I keep it at any scale — five clients or five hundred.

The people you represent get something different, and just as real: a system, not a hotline. Structured briefings. Plain answers. Nobody treated like a file number, whether there are five of them or five thousand.

When a matter has more than one plaintiff firm working it together, that same discipline extends across the coalition — every firm aligned on messaging and timing, so there's no gap between co-counsel for the defense to find.

One person can't personally hold nine thousand hands. A system can make sure nobody feels forgotten anyway. That's the entire difference between a promise that breaks under scale and one built for it.

Media Desk

Institutions Rarely Lose Cases in the Courtroom. They Lose Them in the Thirty Days Before the Courtroom.

That thirty days is mine. Reporter access: background on leading cases, direct attorney access, response time within the hour.

I work across the full range of outlets a case like yours might need — from business and legal press like the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, to national platforms like The Daily and Good Morning America, to independent media like The Joe Rogan Experience. Every newsroom works differently, and every case is different — what I bring is knowing which one fits your story, and who to call when it does.

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Ethics & Privilege

Questions

Will retaining you create a discoverable record?

No parallel file. Engaged through your firm, under privilege, structured as attorney work product from the first conversation.

Is this ethical?

This work is structured as privileged attorney work product, under counsel's direction, and compliant with Rule 3.6 on trial publicity. I never contact jurors, witnesses, or the venire.

Do you guarantee a larger settlement?

No honest person does. What I guarantee: the defense loses its monopoly on the story.

Who actually does the work?

I lead and personally start every engagement from day one. You always have my direct line. When the volume of an MDL demands scale, I bring in a vetted bench — no one with less than ten years of experience touches your account.

Beyond the Case

Your Firm Has a Reputation. Somebody Should Be Building It On Purpose.

Everything above is case-specific work — protecting the matter in front of you. Firm Growth is a separate engagement: building your firm's public reputation over years, not one case at a time. Media relationships that outlast any single matter. Thought leadership that positions your attorneys as the ones reporters call first. Crisis readiness before you need it, not after. A public presence consistent enough that the next case is easier to win before it's even filed.

The case work wins the matter. Firm Growth wins the next ten.

See how Firm Growth works →

You Are Fighting Blind. I Have the Map.

The defense has already mapped your case. No onboarding forms. Text, call, or email directly with the case name and defendant — free check, no credit card, no email required, and you keep it whether or not we ever work together.

Urgent: active litigation crisis or an imminent media drop — text and I will call you back as soon as I can. Standard: expect a personal callback within 8 hours.

25 Years in Plaintiff-Side Litigation Communications. Hire Us When Experience Matters.