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About Karen Albence
Karen Albence is a trial attorney with 18 years of experience representing injured individuals and families in complex personal injury, wrongful death, and workplace misconduct cases. She was named Consumer Attorney of the Year in 2022 for a landmark sexual harassment case that took more than seven years to litigate through the California Superior Court, Court of Appeal, and Supreme Court. Her practice extends across California and Hawaii, where she has litigated catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases against corporations, government agencies, and manufacturers. She is admitted to practice in all California Superior Courts, the California Court of Appeals, multiple federal courts, and the courts of Hawaii, and is a member of Consumer Attorneys of San Diego and holds a board seat with the Civil Litigation Sector of the San Diego County Bar Association.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Frantz Law Group
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Frantz Law Group, representing roughly 5,000 victims, helped negotiate a $13.5 billion PG&E bankruptcy settlement covering tens of thousands of survivors and families from the 2015 Butte, 2017 North Bay, and 2018 Camp wildfires.
Frantz Law Group, led by attorneys James Frantz and William Shinoff, represented nearly 1,000 public school districts across 38 states in multidistrict litigation against JUUL Labs, reaching a $1.7 billion settlement in 2023 that covered approximately 1,600 school districts, local governments, tribal entities, and individual consumers.
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