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Lauren is a senior partner in the Real Estate and Environmental Law Practice Group of Bowditch & Dewey. Lauren has a diverse environmental law practice emphasizing negotiation, enforcement and compliance issues. She is also an experienced mediator.
Lauren is the founder and Executive Director of the Bowditch Institute for Women’s Success, where she combines her unique qualifications and expertise to help law firms and other business organizations create an environment where women can succeed. She is the author of Ending the Gauntlet: Removing Barriers to Women’s Success in the Law, a book about the institutional impediments to the retention and advancement of women in the legal profession.
Lauren is listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Chambers USA America’s Leading Business Lawyers, and Massachusetts Super Lawyers. Among her many honors, Lauren is the recipient of the 2007 Barbara Gray Humanitarian Award from Voices Against Violence, the Boston College 2004 Alumni Award for Excellence in Law, the Boston College Law School 75th Anniversary Alumni Award, and from the Women’s Bar Association of Massachusetts, the 2005 Lelia J. Robinson Award.
In August 2008, Lauren began a three-year term as a member of the American Bar Association Board of Governors, having just completed a three-year term as one of twelve members of the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession. She is also a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.
As the former President of the Boston Bar Association, Lauren established the Task-Force on Professional Challenges and Family Needs which produced Facing the Grail – Confronting the Costs of Work/Family Imbalance – a report which received national attention for its in-depth analysis of the cost of attrition in law firms. She continues her advocacy of these issues through her involvement with the Massachusetts Equality Commission.
Lauren is a former Chair and current member of the Board of Directors of the Environmental League of Massachusetts, a member of the Board of Directors for the Massachusetts Women’s Political Caucus, a member of the Board of Trustees of Middlesex Savings Bank and the Boston Bar Foundation, and a founding member of the Council for Women of Boston College. She recently concluded ten years on the Board of Trustees of Clark University, in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Within her community, Lauren is the first woman to have served as Chair of the MetroWest Chamber of Commerce. In 1997, the MetroWest Chamber of Commerce named her “Business Leader of the Year” and also granted her the Athena Award for professional excellence in 2001. The Boston Globe recognized her as one of “The Who’s Who of Top Women Lawyers” in 1995, and the Middlesex News named Lauren “Woman of the Year” in 1991. In addition, Lauren has more than seventy published works, ranging from articles in her areas of professional expertise to op-ed pieces in the Boston Globe, the Boston Business Journal, the Boston Herald, Women’s Business and multiple newspapers and periodicals nationwide.
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