Shari Karney

    She’s a lioness with an intriguing story and a compelling role as a woman, attorney and legal commentator -- a woman of the new millennium.

    Shari Karney was featured daily in a syndicated reality Court show on Fox television called Power of Attorney where the ten most influential and notorious attorneys in the United States tried real cases against each other resulting in real verdicts. In each half-hour show, Shari and opposing counsel (Johnny Cochran, Ed Masury, Melvin Belli, Marcia Clark, Chris Darden, Gloria Allred) would go head to head on important legal cases.  Power of Attorney now airs on Fox’s Court Channel daily.

      Shari graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude from UCLA and with Honors from Loyola Marymount University School of Law.  She has championed legal reforms on behalf of crime victims, reforms that have resulted in innovative laws now on the books in 32 states. 

    Shari has served as counsel in some of the most controversial issues and cases making news today.  

 

    Subject of an NBC, Movie-of-the Week, called Shattered Trust, The Shari Karney Story. “ "Shattered Trust” was one of the ten most watched television movies on NBC.  The national ratings showed that every third television in America (watching network television), was watching Shari’s compelling story.  Shari also Co-Executive Produced the project.  Currently, her movie is airing on Lifetime Television and one of the top 10 highest rated television movies of all time.

 
    After Shari’s movie aired, NBC and their affiliates were inundated with hundreds of thousands of callers wanting to contact Shari, asking when and where they could see her and speak to her.  Child Help USA received so many calls after the movie aired that their phone lines went down.  Viewers wrote thousands of letters. The Capitol Switchboard in Washington, DC was flooded with callers wanting to have their voices heard asking that Shari's bill be passed.  The archives in Sacramento, California, was deluged with callers wanting a copy of the bill Shari helped get passed in California for victims of child sexual abuse.  Shari’s appearances never fail to elicit a huge positive audience and viewer response.  

 

    Her expertise in these areas and her compelling legal commentary have made her a frequent guest on television and radio talk shows nationwide.  She has appeared on, “Oprah", "ABC Primetime with Diane Sawyer" "The Today Show", "NBC Nightly News", “Larry King Live", “Peter Jennings’ World News Report ","The Evening News with Forest Sawyer”,  “CBS Evening News”,  "The Weekend Today Show", "KNBC News", "KABC Action News", "CBS Eyewitness News," MTV", "VH-1,"  "Entertainment Tonight",  "Inside Edition", “Sally Jessy Raphael" and "Leeza."  She has been featured in The New York Times, Sunday Magazine Section, The Los Angeles Times, Variety, TV Guide, The Hollywood Reporter, Glamour Magazine, Women's Wear Daily, The Los Angeles Daily Journal and in more than 600 publications across the country.  
Today, Shari is a widely respected legal commentator and radio and television show host.

 

 

Shari’s hosted a radio show for KLSX (97.1FM).
    
    As an entrepreneur, she is the owner and creator of the highly successful, BARWINNERS/The Karney Course .  A Bar Review Course that helps lawyers and law students pass the California Bar Exam.  Her e-commerce site BARWINNERS STORE allows everyone to sign up for the Karney course online.