Karen Tynan is an of counsel lawyer within the Sacramento workplace of Ogletree Deakins. Karen is initially from the state of Georgia, and after graduating with honors from america Service provider Marine Academy, she labored for Chevron Transport Firm for ten years – crusing as a ship’s officer on oil tankers rising to the rank of Chief Officer together with her Limitless Grasp’s License in addition to San Francisco Bay pilotage endorsement. Karen was the best rating lady within the Chevron fleet when she left her seafaring life. This maritime and petroleum expertise is exclusive amongst employment legal professionals and brings a “actual world” strategy to working with administration and reaching litigation targets.
After her decade within the service provider marine, Karen relocated to California and graduated cum laude from Empire School Faculty of Regulation. Throughout legislation college, she clerked with the Sonoma County District Lawyer’s workplace for 2 years. The final decade, Karen’s specialised in defending employers within the office security area and defending sexual harassment and wrongful termination lawsuits for California employers together with development corporations, transportation corporations, wineries, and media corporations. Current notable successes embrace a 2017 protection verdict in a sexual harassment case in Napa County for a big development firm in addition to profitable settlement of Cal OSHA citations with a 90% discount in fines for Willful and Severe citations issued out of Oakland for a big San Francisco primarily based firm in 2018. Karen’s experience additionally contains blood-borne pathogen regulatory compliance associated to the Cal/OSHA customary for hospitals, nursing properties, and common business. She successfully defended 5 corporations concerning the right hazard minimization with regard to blood-borne pathogens in California.
Karen has been a group chief in Northern California taking management positions in quite a few college boards and group organizations together with libraries {and professional} organizations. She is the founding counsel for the Committee for Fairness in Ladies’s Browsing which introduced prize equality to ladies’s browsing by working intently with the main big-wave ladies athletes and the California Coastal Fee and State Lands Fee from 2016 by way of 2018.