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Karen Harned

Executive Director, National Federation of Independent Business Legal Center

Karen R. Harned serves as executive director of the NFIB Small Business Legal Center. Harned has strong experience fighting for small business. As an associate at Olsson, Frank, and Weeda, P.C., she specialized in food and drug law and represented several small businesses and their trade associations before Congress and federal agencies. She also worked as an assistant press secretary for U.S. Sen. Don Nickles, Okla.

Education

B.A., University of Oklahoma, 1989
J.D., The George Washington University Law School, 1995

Publications

Who Determines Agency Jurisdiction?: City of Arlington v. FCC - Podcast
Administrative Law & Regulation Practice Group Podcast
February 25, 2013

Florida Constitutional Challenge to Obamacare: It All Comes Down to Broccoli
Engage Volume 12, Issue 3, November 2011
January 11, 2012

The Amendments to the Americans with Disabilities Act: Bad for Business, Boon for the Disabled?
Engage Volume 11, Issue 3, December 2010
December 23, 2010

Class Action Watch May 2010
May 3, 2010

Mississippi Supreme Court to Rule on Constitutionality of Non-Economic Damage Caps
May 3, 2010

Resurrect Rule 11
March 20, 2008

The ADA Opening Doors for the Plaintiff �s Bar: How Ambiguities in Title III Inhibit Access, Increase Litigation, and Hurt Business
March 4, 2006

OMB Prompt Letters: Are They Promoting (Smarter) Regulation?
May 1, 2005