Lauren Kessler
Managing Associate
San Francisco Office
Lauren is a litigation associate in Orrick’s San Francisco office. Her practice spans cybersecurity and privacy matters, trade secret defense and enforcement, complex commercial disputes, government and internal investigations, and regulatory enforcement actions.
Lauren’s cybersecurity and privacy experience includes defending companies against class action litigation and contractual disputes following the announcement of cybersecurity and privacy incidents, as well as counselling clients on incident response and remediation.
In her commercial practice, Lauren represents companies as both plaintiffs and defendants in a wide range of civil disputes including claims of trade secret misappropriation, breach of contract, and breach of fiduciary duty. Lauren also has experience defending individuals and companies against investigations and subsequent enforcement actions brought by the SEC and OCC.
Lauren is passionate about her pro bono practice and community service. Lauren will soon argue before a California Court of Appeal to have her client’s life sentence vacated due to fundamental changes in California’s felony murder law. Lauren is also representing a Guatemalan father and daughter seeking Federal Tort Claims Act relief after they were forcibly separated at the U.S. border while seeking asylum. In addition, the Justice & Diversity Center of the Bar Association of San Francisco recognized Lauren as an Outstanding Volunteer in Public Service in 2018 for her work helping homeless clients clear outstanding warrants barring them from access to federal benefits.
