Karen Beyea-Schroeder
Mass Tort and Complex Litigation Attorney
As part of Lanier Junell McBride, Karen will help oversee the Social Media Addiction docket for litigation. Karen will monitoring applicable statutes of limitations and evaluate cases to preserve each client’s legal rights. Working closely with the docket team, she will help ensure that cases are identified, reviewed, and filed in a timely manner when appropriate, while supporting the thorough development of each client’s claim.
Karen Beyea-Schroeder has almost two decades of diverse experience in the practice of law and has always focused her career on helping those in need. She believes the focus of any lawsuit is to get justice for clients. She aggressively pursues the client’s interests in litigation, rather than just waiting to see how things play out. This moves cases forward to help clients get the opportunity to seek justice in the courtroom.
Karen was born in Buffalo, New York and throughout her life has lived in New York, New Jersey, and Texas. At the start of her career, Karen served in the United States Army Judge Advocate General Corps in the Legal Assistance and Claims Departments as well as served as a Military Prosecutor and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney. While in the Army, she worked on various cases ranging from traffic investigations to prosecuting rape and homicides. Karen is licensed to practice law in Arizona, New Jersey, New York and Texas.
Her practice is devoted primarily to litigation matters where she focuses on various product liability, personal injury and complex commercial litigations. Karen has represented thousands of clients who have been injured by dangerous drugs and medical devices. Some notable cases that she has been involved with include representing numerous victims involving pharmaceutical drugs and devices: Trasylol, Hip Implants, Knee Implants, Testosterone Replacement Therapy, Levaquin, Avelox, Cipro, 3M Dual Combat Earplugs, Roundup, Transvaginal Mesh, Hernia Mesh and Essure to name a few. She has fought against pharmaceutical giants including Ethicon, Johnson & Johnson, American Medical Systems, Endo Pharmaceuticals, Boston Scientific Corporation, C.R. Bard, Zimmer, Inc., Bayer, Neomedic, AbbVie and Pfizer. She has also assisted former NFL players in the NFL Concussion Litigation.
Karen has worked on several Plaintiff Steering Committees, including the transvaginal mesh litigation, Physiomesh hernia mesh litigation and 3M Dual Combat Earplugs. She also served as one of the lead attorneys appointed by the court to represent women nationwide for damages suffered as a result of the Neomedic transvaginal mesh implants.
