Education | | J.D., 1999, cum laude, University of Michigan Law School | | B.A., 1997, College of William and Mary |
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Admitted | | Colorado | | California | | District of Columbia | | U.S. District Court, District of Colorado | | U.S. District Court, Central District of California | | U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas | | U.S. Court of Federal Claims |
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Distinctions | Colorado Super Lawyers, Rising Star
Impact Denver, Class of 2008 |
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Memberships | American Bar Association, Section of Environment, Energy and Resources
Colorado Bar Association
Colorado Women’s Bar Association |
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| Lauren's practice focuses on complex commercial litigation and natural resources litigation. She has litigated a wide variety of commercial matters in federal and state courts and before various arbitral forums, including commercial contract disputes, business torts, telecommunications, real estate, and insurance matters. Lauren’s natural resources litigation experience includes cases and administrative actions under the Clean Air Act; Clean Water Act; Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA); the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA); and the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), as well as toxic tort litigation. Lauren also represents clients in administrative actions before federal and state agencies and advises clients regarding compliance with federal and state environmental statutes. Her current and former clients include companies in the agricultural, energy, manufacturing, telecommunications, real estate, engineering and aerospace industries.
Lauren also serves as the firm’s Pro Bono Partner. In this role, Lauren facilitates and expands on the firm’s strong commitment to pro bono service and public interest work across all offices. Since the firm’s formal adoption of its pro bono program in 2008, the number of attorneys participating in the program and the number of pro bono hours per attorney have increased exponentially, with Brownstein lawyers devoting nearly 9000 pro bono hours in 2011. Lauren also works with the firm’s corporate clients to identify strategic pro bono partnerships. Lauren has a long history of pro bono service including the ongoing representation of a Texas death row inmate in her state and federal habeas corpus appeals; representation of abused and neglected children as a guardian ad litem; and representation and counseling of numerous indigent clients every year through Legal Aid. She also serves as the firm’s representative to the Colorado Lawyers Committee, a consortium of Colorado law firms dedicated to increasing opportunities for children, the poor and other disadvantaged communities through advocacy, negotiation and litigation.
Prior to joining the firm, Lauren was an associate at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Washington, D.C. She also served as a law clerk for Judge Bruce D. Black of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico. |
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Representative Matters | | Represented owner of mixed-use condominium and retail development project in Chapter 11 reorganization and mechanics liens proceedings. | Successfully defended a medical malpractice insurer against charges in market conduct examination by the Colorado Division of Insurance; represented the insurer on appeal of an adverse ruling before the Colorado Court of Appeals
| | Represented Qwest (now CenturyLink) in lawsuits against multiple Competitive Local Exchange Carriers regarding switched access services. | | The 2003 Quantification Settlement Agreement (QSA) and related agreements in a water dispute involving the Colorado River Agreements among the United States, California and the largest water agencies in Southern California. Litigation counsel for key water agency in litigation and appeals challenging the agreement for litigation that has been coordinated in the Sacramento Superior Court and includes an action to validate the QSA agreements and several actions that allege that the water transfers and the QSA PEIR do not comply with CEQA. |
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Publications & Presentations | "Proportionality and Cost-Shifting: Strategies and Insights from Prominent In-house and Outside Counsel," Panel Presenter, Falcon Discovery Webinar, January 11, 2012
| "Privilege Review, Redaction, and Logging," Presenter, CLE, March 10, 2010
| "Recent Developments in Climate Change Law," The Colorado Lawyer, November 2008, Vol. 37, No. 11
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