Karyn J. Taylor comes to the legal field after a long and distinguished career in broadcast journalism. A former staff Producer/Director/Writer for 60 Minutes, 20/20, and Closeup, she has freelanced for Frontline, Life & Times, ABC News, The Dow Jones Investor Network, Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous and more. She is the recipient of over 15 journalism and filmmaking awards, and has been nominated for two EMMY’s, a Writers Guild Award, a Humanitas Prize, and a Columbia University Alfred I. du Pont Award. A magna cum laude graduate of Wellesley College, Karyn received a prestigious John S. Knight Fellowship for Professional Journalists from Stanford University in 1987. She returned to academia to teach broadcast journalism at UCLA Extension in 1995, and in 2004, became a Finalist (top 10 out of 6,073 entries) in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science’s Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting.

Karyn was introduced to the field of trial consulting in 1989 while covering a product liability lawsuit for 60 Minutes. Inspired to bring her expertise in storytelling and visual persuasion to the task of persuading the trier of fact, she joined Litigation Sciences, Inc. in 1992 and DecisionQuest in 1997. She gathered a crackerjack team of communications experts and visual storytellers to found the trial consulting and business communications firm, The Strategic Image, in 2003.

Since joining the legal field, Karyn has worked most frequently on cases involving intellectual property, patent infringement, insurance bad faith, entertainment, medical malpractice, professional malpractice, employment, construction defects, construction claims, and business contracts, and is proud to have been on the winning side in the vast majority.

Known for "making the complex simple," Karyn has used visual storytelling to win record-setting verdicts for her clients again and again. She produced a computer-animated tutorial on the ring laser gyroscope that was instrumental in helping Litton Industries win a record $1 billion patent infringement verdict in 1992 (Litton vs. Honeywell), then helped a small contractor win a record $40 million dollar construction claims verdict against Exxon in 1997 (Enserch vs. Exxon). In 1999-2000, she created 700 graphics, 24 computer animations, and two videos to help a real estate developer explain structural engineering and earthquake code to a jury on Guam. Jurors in Kawasho v. Mitsui awarded her client $73.4 million each in compensatory and punitive damages -- two of the largest verdicts of 2001 and 2002. Most recently, Karyn created site maps that helped a surety win more than $6,400,000 in a differing site conditions claim in Southern California (Safeco vs. County of San Bernardino).

Karyn has been a featured speaker at events sponsored by The American Bar Association (Litigation, Minority and Construction sections), The State Bar of California (Intellectual Property section), The Women Lawyers of Los Angeles, The Continuing Education of the Bar, The Inns of Court, and numerous local bar associations. She is a co-author of the book, Create the Business Breakthrough You Want: Secrets and Strategies from the World’s Greatest Mentors, with well-known business gurus, Mark Victor Hansen (The One Minute Millionaire), Brian Tracy (The Psychology of Selling), and Robert G. Allen (Nothing Down).

As the driving force behind The Strategic Image, Karyn helps her clients utilize juror psychology, social science research, and the power of Conceptual Persuasion^SM to maximize their odds of winning in court, in business, and in their careers.