Karen Richard is a labor contract negotiator by day and author by night. She has held numerous jobs in her life from cook to mail carrier. She lives in the northeastern United States with her wife and their cats. She is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame Law School although she won’t say what year. As a hint, it was the last year that the Fighting Irish won a national championship in football. She stands firm in the belief that, like the Phoenix, the Irish will rise from the ashes and reign as National Champions again! She has taken and passed the bar in Michigan, Maryland and Wisconsin, marking the only three times in her life she passed a bar without stopping in for a drink.

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