Lauren Sandground is a senior associate in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. As a member of the Insurance Recovery and Counseling practice group, she represents insurance policyholders in obtaining coverage under standard business and liability policies—including general liability, property, directors and officers, employment liability, and professional liability policies—as well as specialty policies—particularly product recall and contamination, representations and warranties, and marine/stock policies.
Lauren has experience guiding her clients through every stage of an insurance claim. On a daily basis, she is advocating for her policyholder clients through negotiating, mediating, arbitrating, and litigating coverage disputes. Before a claim even happens, she counsels clients as to initial placement and renewal of insurance policies. Lauren also regularly provides advice to clients undergoing corporate transactions with respect to insurance.
She frequently works with consumer product companies in the food and beverage and beauty and cosmetics industries. Her experience includes advising these companies with respect to traditional bodily injury and property damage claims, product contamination and recall events, business interruption, and long-tail exposure claims. Lauren brings a strategic perspective to her practice to achieve her client’s risk management and insurance recovery goals.
Lauren is committed to pro bono, particularly in support of matters relating to public international law, immigration, and the arts. Internationally ranked for her oral argument skills while at University of Virginia School of Law, she continues to coach the school's award-winning Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court team. As a percussionist and proud supporter of the arts, Lauren serves on the board of the non-profit, Network for Diversity in Concert Percussion, whose mission is to create a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive concert percussion community.
Lauren leads the firm’s Insurance Recovery and Counseling Associates and Counsel Committee and is Co-Chair of the Washington, D.C., office’s Associates and Analysts Committee.
