Karen Wildau concentrates in litigation and arbitration. She is a member of the Firm's Business Litigation & Arbitration group and Securities, Corporate & Fiduciary Litigation practice group. Her specific areas of concentration include complex commercial and contract litigation, employment law, partnership dissolutions, employment contract disputes and restrictive covenants, attorney and accountant liability, directors and officers liability, banking litigation, fidelity bond matters, and mortgage fraud. Ms. Wildau has handled complex, fact-intensive cases for small and large corporations, banks, accountants, attorneys, insurers, federal banking agencies and partnerships.

She has also had considerable experience in alternative dispute resolution, both as participant and arbitrator and has arbitrated cases involving contractual disputes, in the telecommunications, insurance, and energy areas, as well as partnership dissolutions, sales of businesses, employment contracts, professional liability and insurance disputes.

In the past several years, Ms. Wildau has defended a major food manufacturer in a class action age discrimination case, exposed a major mortgage fraud ring leader and recovered for a national mortgage company she represented, pursued a claim for a major institutional food service outsourcer in a dispute over contract termination, been lead counsel in an accountants malpractice case on behalf of eight of the nation's largest banks against a major accounting firm, represented the country's largest carpet manufacturer in an unfair trade practices and misappropriation of trade secret action against a competitor and in a class action involving dealer compensation for handling warranty claims, defended a leading cosmetic manufacturer on ERISA claims and represented the FDIC in its investigation into the failure of a $16 billion national bank, the fifth-largest bank ever closed by the FDIC.

Ms. Wildau is currently the firm's General Counsel, a member of the Firm's Executive Committee, and is a former member of the Firm's Board of Partners. She has served as the chair of the Litigation Department's training program for ten years, headed the firmwide training committee and has lectured for clients' in-house counsel on litigation skills.

Ms. Wildau has written and spoken on fidelity claims and has successfully resolved a number of bank fidelity bond claims. She is the author of "Evolving Law of Third Party Claims under Fidelity Bonds: When is Third-Party Recovery Allowed?," which was published in the Tort & Insurance Law Journal and "What Did They Know and When Did They Know It, Who Are 'They' Anyway and What Difference Does It Make--Imputation Under the Financial Institution Bond and Its Implication For Coverage," published in The Fidelity Law Association Journal.