Lauren C. Prease

Lauren Prease practices complex litigation defense in environmental, pharmaceutical, products liability, and toxic tort matters. Lauren is experienced in all phases of the litigation process, including drafting and responding to pleadings, managing the collection and production of electronically stored information in discovery, authoring dispositive motions, and developing fact and expert witnesses for deposition and trial. Lauren also was a member of the ethylene oxide litigation trial team that defended a client against environmental exposure claims in the Circuit Court for Cook County, Illinois.

Lauren received her law degree from 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.