Lauren’s practice focuses on representing management-side corporations and employers in a variety of employment matters, with particular experience in claims and suits involving race, age, gender, and disability discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wage and hour violations. Lauren has also litigated numerous cases involving the defense of restrictive covenant agreements, misappropriation of trade secrets and confidential information, breach of the duty of loyalty and unfair competition, as well as other state and federal claims. She has represented employers in the labor and employment sectors before various state agencies and federal courts throughout New York and New Jersey. Lauren also has experience in complex commercial litigation matters.
While attending Seton Hall University School of Law, Lauren was a member of the Legislative Journal and represented indigent clients in the Juvenile Justice Clinic before Family Court judges. She also studied abroad in Zanzibar, Tanzania, where she studied modern day slavery and human trafficking. She served as a judicial law clerk to the Hon. Ralph L. DeLuccia, Jr., J.S.C. (ret.) of the New Jersey Superior Court during the 2013 to 2014 term. Prior to joining Buchanan, Lauren was an associate in the labor and employment group at a law firm in New York.