Karen has direct and close client communication building trust and relationships with her clients to address clients’ needs and concerns with a primary goal of placing her clients at ease and keeping them well informed about their case. Every interaction is seen as a building block to obtain the best possible outcome for her clients. She skillfully approaches every client and case with a desire and passion to get the best possible resolution for her clients and their families that have suffered a loss at the hands of someone else’s negligence.

Karen is highly skilled in negotiations with insurers, corporations, medical providers, lien holders and other attorneys. She uses her many years of experience and knowledge in the insurance industry to advocate for her clients injured in accidents, having represented insurance companies and defendants in numerous cases through settlement as well as trial. She uses her many years of experience and her drive for nothing short of excellence to obtain the best resolution through settlement negotiations or meticulous preparation and execution of litigation. She has developed an exceptional ability to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses for both sides of the case to make the best decisions for her clients in obtaining the most successful outcome.

Karen has personally litigated and negotiated many multi-million dollar cases over the past 30 years for her clients who have suffered injuries due to the negligence and wrongdoing of both individuals and companies. These cases include:

These are just some of the many cases Karen has devoted her time and passion for her clients who placed their trust in her.  She is known to get to the bottom of what really happened -even when faced with evidence that disappears when a business owner tried to escape responsibility for example.

She will not rest until she knows she has done everything she can for her clients. She gives her full time and attention to each client and case using her many valuable contacts including experts and resources she has amassed over the past 30 years in the personal injury field in Massachusetts. She is not afraid to go toe to toe with those individuals or companies who have cause harmed to her clients. Her enthusiasm, work ethic and passion for victims who have been harmed is infectious, and she serves as a role model and mentor for younger lawyers taking the time to train and mentor them.

Before establishing her own law firm, Karen spent the last decade of her career in a law firm as senior associate where she developed and managed the personal injury department turning it into one of her greatest accomplishments. During this time, she had a caseload where she represented an insurance company and their insureds who caused the accidents and obtained inside knowledge and experience about how the other side of the case works. Having defended those negligent drivers and business owners against the victims that were harmed, gives her an edge in the personal injury field in Massahcusetts. Karen also handled serious injury and wrongful death cases where she shined not only as a top notch well respected personal injury lawyer representing those harmed, but also as human being who is a wife and mother, who was also there for her clients and their families in a time of need, making them feel heard and at ease knowing they had her in their corner. Karen also managed other attorneys, law clerks, paralegals, secretaries, and receptionists for more than a decade during her career. Her main focus was to make every employee, no matter what position they were in, to be the best they could be. She implemented and developed many systems and guidelines to make the personal injury department that she managed run as smoothly as possible with a standard of nothing less than excellence. No one could come close to Karen’s drive, standard of excellence, never giving up, and work ethic that she attributes to her father who she watched since a young child own and manage his own successful business here in Boston, Massachusetts with no college degree and nothing more than a high school diploma and passion and grit to succeed.

Karen established her own firm, Nadeau Harkavy LLC, with her law partner Leslie Harkavy in 2019 with a focus on providing superb legal services in a boutique setting where she and her partner Leslie could focus on providing individual attention to clients, close communication with clients, and a commitment to the relentless pursuit of justice and top-quality representation to those injured and in need of compassion and support during one of the most difficult times in their lives. Having worked together for two decades as a team, Karen and Leslie have a track record of excellent results and satisfied clients, many who have become friends and refer other friends and family members to them for representation. They also are grateful for the referrals of accident cases by fellow attorneys who know them and trust that they will do everything they can to get their clients what they deserve.