A&O Shearman

MIG

Partner

Karen is U.S. Head of the Markets Innovation Group (MIG), a group of lawyers, technologists and developers who are focused on the creation of innovative solutions for clients that help them meet large-scale legal and regulatory challenges. She specializes in delivering technological and resourcing solutions to our U.S. based clients.

She also advises clients on a broad range of transactional law issues, specializing in banking and finance. Her expertise includes extensive knowledge and use of various types of legal technologies, including AI, document automation and deal management platforms. Her legal background covers the full spectrum of secured and unsecured corporate debt finance, as well as other transaction matters.

Karen played a key role in developing A&O Shearman’s proprietary, generative AI-powered contract drafting and negotiation tool, ContractMatrix, which is used internally by thousands of A&O Shearman lawyers, as well as licensed to clients. ContractMatrix, which is based on GPT-4 technology, was developed in partnership with Microsoft and Harvey, making A&O Shearman the first ever law firm to collaborate with Microsoft to develop a software product. Karen was also involved in the firm-wide deployment of Harvey, the OpenAI-backed large language model (LLM) that has been fine-tuned for law, in December 2022, which made A&O Shearman the first firm in the world to deploy generative AI at enterprise level.

Karen is also part of a cross-practice group that advises businesses on the safe deployment of AI. Additionally, Karen leads our finance team in connection with advising global financial institutions in their transition away from the use of IBORs. She was instrumental in the development of A&O Shearman’s IBORMatrix tool (a workflow and outreach tool utilized on IBOR projects).

Karen is admitted to practice in New York and received a BS from Fordham University and her JD from Fordham University School of Law.