Lauren C. Prease

Lauren C. Prease practices in the firm’s Complex Litigation, Environmental, Pharmaceutical & Medical Device and Products Liability & Toxic Torts groups. Lauren is experienced in all phases of the litigation process, from drafting pleadings, preparing and responding to written discovery, and managing document productions, to authoring dispositive motions, and developing witnesses for deposition and trial, and advising the trial team regarding the presentation of science-based issues relating to the defense of mass tort claims in complex litigation.

Lauren received her law degree from The George Washington University Law School, where she served as the 1L Coordinator of the Black Law Students Association and worked as a student attorney at Rising for Justice, a nonprofit legal clinic, where she successfully represented an adult and a juvenile client in D.C. Superior Court. Following law school, she worked as a post-graduate intern to The Honorable Erik P. Christian of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, and subsequently as a law clerk to The Honorable Brian F. Holeman also of the D.C. Superior Court.

Lauren graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a B.A. in political science and sociology. During her career at Notre Dame, she volunteered at a South Bend community center tutoring elementary school-aged children living in underserved communities. She also participated in The Notre Dame Bookstore Basketball Tournament, the largest 5-on-5 outdoor basketball tournament in the world.

Lauren’s creativity is not limited to the practice of law. She also enjoys learning about the laws of physics, and the discipline of mechanical engineering, which she uses to restore broken pocket watches to working order.