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Karen Dunn was born on 19 November, 0075 in New York City, New York, U.S., is an American attorney. Discover Karen Dunn's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 49 years old?
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Her husband is Brian Netter
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Karen Dunn Net Worth
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Karen Dunn (born 1975) is an American lawyer and political operative.
Dunn is a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.
As an attorney, she has represented clients including Apple, Oracle and Uber, and in 2021 defended Apple in a lawsuit brought by Epic Games.
Dunn is a specialist in debate prep in Democratic politics, particularly for candidates for President and Vice President.
In 1999, Dunn joined the campaign team for Hillary Clinton, who was preparing to run for a Senate seat in New York.
Following Clinton’s election to the Senate, Dunn worked as press secretary for Clinton, then as her communications director until 2003.
After law school, Dunn served as a law clerk to D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Merrick Garland in 2006.
Dunn became deputy to Obama’s chief strategist, David Axelrod, in July 2008.
Dunn was an associate White House counsel in 2009, and an Assistant U.S. Attorney for Eastern District of Virginia in 2010.
Dunn is the daughter of Nina Laserson Dunn and Theodore M. Dunn.
She received a B.A. degree magna cum laude from Brown University and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
She is of Jewish descent.
Following Obama’s inauguration in 2009, she was named associate White House counsel.
In July of that same year, Dunn prepared Sonia Sotomayor for her Supreme Court Senate confirmation hearings.
Dunn married attorney Brian Netter, who she met at Yale Law School, in 2009.
She was an adviser to the political thriller television series House of Cards.
Dunn was hired as a prosecutor for the Eastern District of Virginia in 2010.
Dunn, with Ron Klain, co-led President Barack Obama’s presidential debate prep team in 2012 and led the presidential debate prep for Hillary Clinton in 2016.
In 2012, Dunn co-directed the prep for Obama’s re-election campaign debates.
The same year, Dunn and her husband Brian Netter, also a lawyer, served as pro bono counsel on behalf of the DC Council, which filed suit against DC Mayor Vincent C. Gray and chief financial officer Jeffrey DeWitt over their refusal to act on the 2012 Budget Autonomy Act.
She joined private practice as partner at the law firm Boies, Schiller, and Flexner in 2014.
Dunn and colleague Bill Isaacson successfully defended Apple in a $1 billion class action lawsuit over an update to its iPod music player, winning a unanimous verdict in favor of the technology company in December 2014.
The DC Superior Court ruled in favor of Dunn and Netter’s clients, the DC Council, in 2016.
Dunn oversaw Hillary Clinton’s debate preparation for both the Democratic primaries and the general election presidential debates in 2016.
According to authors Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes in their book Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign, Dunn was considered as a lead contender to serve as White House Counsel should Hillary Rodham Clinton have won the Presidency in 2016.
In 2017, Dunn defended Uber in a case in which Uber was accused by autonomous driving technology company Waymo of stealing driverless technology trade secrets.
The American Lawyer magazine named Dunn “Litigator of the Year” in 2017, citing her “high-stakes” work defending Uber; representing Apple in a patent lawsuit disputing Qualcomm’s patent licensing model; and summary judgment for Beats - owned by Apple - in a $1 billion suit brought by Monster.
Dunn was one of the lead lawyers in the civil suit against the organizers of the 2017 Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, representing multiple Charlottesville residents and counter-protesters.
In her opening statement, Dunn argued that rally organizers "came to Charlottesville with a plan for violence with racial and religious hatred” and “that they used race and religious hatred to motivate others to join."
Dunn’s clients were awarded over $25 million in damages in November 2021.
Following Dunn’s February 7, 2018 questioning of former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick regarding the company’s early interest in the technology of autonomous driving cars, the trial ended abruptly on February 9 and was settled out of court later that month.
In the fall of 2020, Dunn oversaw Kamala Harris’ preparation for the general election vice presidential debates.
Additionally, Dunn, alongside Roberta Kaplan, was one of the lead lawyers for the plaintiffs in a successful $25 million civil suit against the organizers of Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia,
She became a partner at the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in July 2020.
At Paul, Weiss Dunn counseled Jeff Bezos during his testimony before a congressional committee in July 2020.
During the 2020 election cycle, Dunn oversaw Kamala Harris’s preparation for the general election vice presidential debates.
In 2021, Dunn defended Apple against a lawsuit brought by Epic Games, the maker of Fortnite in a case that NPR described as “the most high-profile antitrust trial in the technology world in decades…”