121 matters in 29 years, all for plaintiff firms. Named where counsel consents. The rest, with names and detail, once you retain me.
Baltimore, Md. · Institutional Medical Abuse
The defense’s move: one rogue doctor. The institution’s own lawyer said so.
What held: a gynecologist had secretly photographed patients during exams for years, at a clinic the institution did not watch closely. 8,000 women. I ran communications for the plaintiffs’ steering committee, gave reporters the facts and asked one question: would this have gone on for 25 years at a clinic for wealthy patients? The lawyers settled the case. I won the story. It started with one AP wire story, and on a day dominated by U.S.–Russia tensions, that story produced more than a million press hits.
“Karen has the ability to get press no one else seems to get. She understands false narratives and knows how to tell the real story. Her media connections are unmatched.”
I showed the producers why it was not news. The segment did not run.
From public sources alone, I found what the defendant was already saying and doing. A sample, prepared with no firm retaining me.
News stories reached the people the ads missed.
Year, region and practice area on every one.
The move: medical error. What held: a specialist at a regional facility had performed unnecessary invasive procedures on children for years, and the institution had the warnings. The story ran as institutional negligence through a settlement that made public what had happened. Hundreds of survivors.
The move: an isolated incident. What held: a long-tenured staff member had abused students for years, and the institution had the warnings. The story ran as a failure to protect. Dozens of survivors.
The move: a global PR operation and institutional statements. What held: survivors’ accounts, in sustained national coverage across the related proceedings.
The move: a standard settlement story. What held: the transparency question the defendant had resisted, in public view through the litigation.
The move: the insurer’s PR team put the crash on the driver within hours. What held: the family’s account, placed with local and regional press inside that same window and anchored to the carrier’s own safety record. The maintenance history stayed in the story through mediation.
The move: wait for the coverage to fade between filings. What held: a cadence tied to hearing and discovery dates. The families of fallen service members stayed in national and military press across years of proceedings.
The move: a global PR operation on the company’s diversity record. What held: employees’ own accounts, which coverage followed ahead of resolution.
The move: minimize. What held: consumer rights and institutional negligence, in the record before the defense could define it.
The move: a verdict is a legal story. What held: a consumer-harm story in national financial and news coverage, with market pressure after the win.
The move: silence. What held: sustained coverage across a portfolio of transportation, toxic exposure and industrial-accident matters.
The move: a multinational’s PR operation minimizing the allegations. What held: coverage of its labor practices, through resolution.
A master press release and coordinated social posts every month, so every firm stays on message, and every firm treated with deference.
I don’t send a list. I pick up the phone. The reporters I call are people I know. Before any story runs, the client and the survivors behind it know what is coming, why, and what it means for them.
Every first Wednesday, a structured briefing: plain-language updates, real answers, and room for whatever they need to say. Dr. Susan W. Oliver runs it under counsel’s direction. The fight belongs with the other side, never with the people who already survived one.
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