PERSON: Karen Dunn


Employer

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Position

Partner
Biography

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. 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 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.

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.

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