Lauren A. Champaign is an associate with Foley & Lardner LLP where she is a member of the Business Litigation & Dispute Resolution Practice.
Ms. Champaign was a summer associate at Foley, where she assisted attorneys on a successful Social Security benefits matter. She also was an extern with the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division - Criminal Section and Employment Litigation Section.
Before entering law school, Ms. Champaign was a regional field director and field organizer for Obama for America, where her efforts where featured in the Washington Post and on PBS NOW regarding her organizing work in one of the key primary states, South Carolina. She would also work with a special committee in the Chicago headquarters that successfully designed and deployed the national field program used in the general election. By the conclusion of her work with Obama for America, she trained thousands of volunteers during four state primaries.
Ms. Champaign earned her law degree from Georgetown University Law (J.D., 2011) where she was student notes editor for the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law. She graduated, summa cum laude, from the University of South Carolina with a Bachelor of Arts degree, double majoring in political science and history (2007).
Ms. Champaign is admitted to practice law only in Virginia and is practicing under the supervision of a member of the District of Columbia Bar.