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With offices nationwide, The Garden City Group, Inc. (GCG) manages legal administration services for class action settlements, Chapter 11 business reorganizations and legal noticing programs. The company’s 400 employees and 30 attorneys can “handle any case. Large. Small. Straightforward. Complex.” Hardly a newcomer to the legal administration scene, Crawford & Company subsidiary GCG has “diligently helped [its] clients bring their toughest cases to timely, positive conclusions” since 1984.

Karen B. Shaer, EVP and General Counsel, joined GCG in September 2001 as Senior Vice President and Managing Director of the company’s then fledgling Business Reorganization division. In 2003, Ms. Shaer assumed the additional role of General Counsel and was named Executive Vice President and General Counsel just three years later. According to GCG, her “accomplishments as an attorney, combined with her class action and Chapter 11 reorganization management skills, have contributed to the successful expansion of GCG’s services.”

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Yale University, Ms. Shaer received her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was also a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. We spoke with Karen about her work with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York, GCG’s high percentage of lawyers and ever-increasing industry competition.

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