Lauren is a Partner of Equity Litigation Group.

Lauren is an expert in class actions and derivative litigation who has helped to recover hundreds of millions of dollars for her clients. Lauren has substantial experience in all phases of complex civil litigation, including pre-suit investigations, dispositive motions, large-scale discovery, mediation, and trial. Lauren has been an active member of the Women in Chancery Lawyers since 2019. In 2024, Lauren was recognized as a Massachusetts Rising Star.

Lauren’s experience includes:

• Counsel to the Employees Retirement System of Rhode Island in successful freedom-of-information-related litigation against Facebook in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts (settled on the eve of oral argument on appeal in the First Circuit).
• Acted as co-lead counsel in challenging the fairness of a conflicted stock issuance by Charter Communications, resulting in an $87.5 million settlement on the eve of trial after nearly eight years of litigation.
• Counsel to the ACLU of Massachusetts in largely successful four-year freedom-of-information litigation against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
• Acted as co-lead counsel in derivative litigation challenging conflicted merger between two public companies owned by the same family, resulting in an $85 million settlement on the eve of trial.

Lauren also maintains a robust pro bono practice, including representing Lawyers for Civil Rights and the Committee for Public Counsel Services in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. She has recently represented multiple parties filing amicus briefs in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, challenging unlawful actions taken by the Trump administration against Harvard University and international students across the country. Lauren is also a frequent guest speaker on corporate law, including at the Harvard Law School Plaintiffs’ Association and Boston College Plaintiffs’ Law Association.

After graduating cum laude from Harvard Law School, Lauren worked as a litigation associate at a top Boston law firm and then served as a judicial law clerk for Chief Judge Denise J. Casper on the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.