Karen Dunn

Karen Dunn (born November 1975) is an American attorney 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, she defended Apple in a lawsuit brought by Epic Games. Dunn is a specialist in debate preparation in Democratic politics, particularly for candidates for president and vice president. Dunn and Ron Klain co-led President Barack Obama's presidential debate preparation team in 2012 and led the presidential debate preparation for Hillary Clinton in 2016. In the fall of 2020, Dunn oversaw preparation of Kamala Harris for the general election vice presidential debates. In 2024, Dunn is once again leading debate preparation of Harris for the 2024 United States presidential debates.

Alongside Roberta Kaplan, Dunn was one of the lead attorneys 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 the Eastern District of Virginia in 2010. Provided by Wikipedia