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KAREN SWIFT

Attorney

Karen Swift has more than twenty years of legal experience, with a focus on healthcare, corporate law and transactional law. She served as associate general counsel to a public healthcare company and has extensive experience in law firms providing guidance to diverse businesses. Karen is a trusted advisor and skilled negotiator and makes a wonderful addition to the Gardner Skelton Healthcare team. She combines her legal and business expertise to innovate practical solutions for clients, while mitigating risk. Karen thoroughly enjoys collaborating with clients to understand and support their present and long-term goals.
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KAREN'S Practice Areas

Corporate Counsel
Corporate Counsel
Healthcare
Healthcare
Education
  • University of Mississippi School of Law, J.D., 2003
  • Bringham Young University - Hawaii, B.A., 1996
Admissions
  • North Carolina State Bar
  • California State Bar
Affiliations
  • American Health Lawyers Association
Community Involvement
  • Service Coordinator for the Relief Society Women’s Organization
  • Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Approach

Karen likes to get to know her clients professionally and personally in an effort to understand their businesses and related goals. She thinks it is helpful to know what their future hopes are for their companies as well as immediate pain points, so that she can be strategic about what (and how) she achieves their goals.

Karen cares about colleagues, clients and the quality of work she produces. She enjoys getting to mentor others and help them progress.

Making a Difference

Karen feels strongly about providing service to others; “it is a way to be connected to my community.” Through her volunteer work, Karen makes that connection and the enrichment she gains from such interaction is far more than she gives.

More about KAREN

Karen has the privilege of supporting five children in India (two sibling groups). She met them while volunteering at an orphanage in Bangalore in 2013. At that time, the oldest was nine and the youngest was almost three. Today, the oldest two attend university and are thriving. Her hobbies include hiking and SCUBA diving. 

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