About

Karen Elizabeth Campbell

25 Years in the Room.

Karen Elizabeth Campbell founded Oliver & Ginger on 25 years of elite litigation communications, crisis counsel, and national press strategy for law firms, institutions, and high-stakes clients.

A former Dow Jones reporter, Karen Elizabeth Campbell has spent her career at the intersection of law, media, and institutional accountability. She knows what reporters need, what producers book, and what juries, regulators, and opposing counsel read. That combination is rare. That is Oliver & Ginger.

She stopped a 60 Minutes segment before it aired. She generated over one million media impressions in a single day for the $190 million Johns Hopkins settlement — NYT, WaPo, CBS News, and TIME Magazine simultaneously. She broke a client story into national coverage during a live Russia news cycle. She served as DOE nuclear contractor communications lead across 70 federal sites.

Karen Campbell has represented plaintiff counsel in mass tort proceedings, managed criminal defense and prosecution media in high-profile cases, and built litigation PR campaigns where the story — and the silence — both required strategy.

She does not use an answering service. She picks up. If she is on another call, she returns within the hour. Crises do not schedule themselves, and neither does she.

Karen Elizabeth Campbell, principal of Oliver and Ginger, plaintiff litigation communications

The Record

60 Minutes Segment — Stopped Pre-Air
Counter-narrative strategy, aggressive third-party placement, and direct producer engagement stopped the segment before broadcast.
$190M Johns Hopkins Settlement
Lead communications strategist. Over one million media impressions in a single day — NYT, WaPo, CBS News, TIME Magazine.
Russia Cycle Break
Broke a client story into national coverage during an active Russia news cycle — the most saturated media environment in modern political history.
DOE Nuclear Crisis · 70 Sites
Nuclear contractor communications lead in Nebraska, managing crisis communications across 70 federal sites simultaneously.
Former Dow Jones Reporter
Knows what reporters need before they ask. What producers book. What opposing counsel reads.
VIS — Plaintiff Litigation Communications
Built ten systems specifically to counter Kirkland & Ellis, FTI Consulting, and Sitrick and Company in plaintiff mass tort and MDL cases.

You don't need communications until you really need it. And then it is too late.

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