Karen Tanenbaum has spent the last decade helping employees and their employers resolve disputes and achieve workplace equity.  She joined TRSG in August 2023 to help progressive organizations craft policies and address conflicts in ways that align with their values.  She also represents and advises individual workers and progressive employers on all manner of federal, state, and local employment laws.

Prior to joining TRSG, Ms. Tanenbaum was an attorney with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, an independent federal oversight and prosecutorial agency, where she oversaw sensitive investigations into whistleblower disclosures and investigated and resolved employee complaints involving retaliation, discrimination, and other workplace misconduct.  She has extensive experience negotiating and resolving complex workplace issues with diverse stakeholders.

Before OSC, Ms. Tanenbaum was an associate at a leading national employment law firm, where she represented individual employees facing discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.  She began her legal career as a judicial law clerk in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia and has worked and volunteered with several progressive non-profit organizations.

Ms. Tanenbaum graduated cum laude from The University of Georgia School of Law and summa cum laude from The University of Georgia’s Morehead Honors College.  She is also the proud parent of one cat, one dog, and one human, and currently splits her time between Southern Spain and the District of Columbia.

Bar Admissions:
District of Columbia
Georgia (inactive)

Prior Professional Experience:
Attorney, U.S. Office of Special Counsel
Associate Attorney, Bernabei & Wachtel, PLLC (now Bernabei & Kabat, PLLC)
Judicial Law Clerk, The Hon. Patricia A. Broderick, Superior Court of the District of Columbia
Law Clerk, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice
Legal Fellow, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights