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Shari Karney is an attorney, on air legal pundit, author, speaker and entrepreneur. The captivating NBC movie “Shattered Trust: The Shari Karney Story” starring Melissa Gilbert, followed Karney’s story involving sexual abuse as a child to championing the rights of women and children as an attorney and pioneering legislation across the country that changed the law for survivors of …
Shari Karney is an attorney, speaker, entrepreneur, and activist for victims’ rights. Since graduating from UCLA and Loyola Law School, she has been an attorney, professor and legal analyst on the news, speaking about newsbreaking cases of the day including rape, child abuse, sexual assault, domestic violence, and other hot-button legal issues.
Karney Law is tough and relentless, yet compassionate toward victims. Karney, as a survivor of child sexual abuse and rape, has a profound understanding and empathy for her clients. Karney knows the unjustness clients have experienced. Learn more.
As of January 1, 2020, survivors of abuse have a three-year window to file civil claims that could not be filed under previous laws. The new laws do not impact the criminal process or deadlines.
Shari Karney is an attorney, on air legal pundit, author, speaker and entrepreneur.
We are connected through the bonds of shared experience and, together we speak as one heart, one soul, one voice. – Shari Karney
Shari Lynn Karney (born February 1, 1952) is an American attorney, incest-survivor activist, and bar exam test preparation company owner.
While practicing as an attorney in 1983, Shari was asked by a mother to take on a child custody case where the mother thought her 3-year-old daughter was being sexually abused by her ex-husband. While she was questioning the ex-husband on the stand during cross-examination regarding the incest she began to scream and yell and lose control without understanding why. As the witness talked, Shari has claimed she became nauseated and sweaty. She has claimed that …
Shari began taking incest survivor cases helping the victims sue their families in civil court to win legal compensation in order to be reimbursed for therapy and other costs. When victims couldn't pay, Shari would finance the suits herself with income from her bar review course, Barwinners. However, Shari found it difficult to win these cases when the courts had a statute of limitationson victims of one year from their 18th birthday to sue. One problem is that incest survivors often we…
From 1985 until 1991 Shari, along with San Francisco attorney Mary R. Williams and California State Senator Bill Lockyer fought for passage of Senate Bill 108. During the Senate hearings, Shari testified to her own molestation by her father and brother. The California law, which amended California Civil Codesection 340.1 and took effect Jan. 1, 1991 permits "delayed discovery" of childhood sexual abuse decades after that abuse has occurred. Under the new law the statute o…
Opponents of SB 108 included California Defense Council, an association of defense lawyers, many of whom are employed by insurers because an abuser's legal fees and some settlement costs would most likely be covered by homeowner insurance policies since most incest occurs in the home.
Some psychologists and therapistsof incest survivors see lawsuits as a last resort or capable of c…
In 1991, NBC bought the rights to her story and developed a movie called Shattered Trust: The Shari Karney Story. The movie was released in 1993 as a television film directed by Bill Corcoran, written by Susan Nanus, and starring Melissa Gilbert.
In 1991 Shari appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Geraldo, Today, Home Show, Larry King Live, and ABC Primetime television programs to educate members of the public about their new legal rights under SB 108.
From 2000-2001 Shari also appeared on the American syndicated TV "court show" Power of Attorney as one of the rotating high-profile attorneys.
In 1999, Karney created the California bar examination test preparation service Barwinners.
In 2015 Barwinners, while under Karney's ownership, was the subject of a lawsuit for making false claims about its students' success rate. Karney's company claimed that Barwinners produced a 94% first-time bar passage rate and a 86%-87% passage rate for repeat test-takers, and had advertised the same passing rate over a long period, but the suit noted that the "actual pass rate…