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Hariklia Karis has extensive experience in jury and bench trials, particularly cases arising in the product liability sphere.
Hariklia Karis
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Hariklia (Carrie) Karis is a Kirkland partner and trial lawyer who has extensive lead trial experience in jury and bench trials and arbitrations involving a broad range of high-profile mass tort litigation and commercial dispute throughout the country. Hariklia has been recognized as a first-class trial lawyer including recognition as Most Winning Litigator in 2022. In her 30-year career at Kirkland, Hariklia has managed and tried numerous cases for clients, in which substantial reputational and financial exposure is at risk. Most recently, in April 2025, Hariklia achieved a complete defense verdict for GATX in a federal court jury trial arising from the highly publicized derailment in East Palestine, Ohio in 2023 in which Norfolk Southern sought recovery of a $600 million settlement. Hariklia also served as co-lead trial counsel for BP in the litigation arising from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as in several regulatory agency and government investigations that resulted in numerous nationally televised and highly publicized trials. She also serves as lead trial counsel in the nationwide multi-district litigation including the largest MDL involving 3M combat arms earplugs as well as opioids as well as other pharmaceutical products. She has served as trial counsel for General Motors in state and federal cases arising out of the company’s voluntary recalls related to ignition switches and other safety issues. Hariklia has served as an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University School of Law, where she taught “Trial Advocacy.”
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DePaul University College of Law, J.D., with high honors and distinction, 1995; Loyola University Chicago, B.A., summa cum laude, 1990.
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