About Lauren
Lauren Shurman is a partner in the Salt Lake City Litigation group and focuses her practice on general commercial and employment litigation. Lauren helps businesses navigate a variety of disputes and compliance issues. She has handled litigation and arbitration matters involving substantive issues ranging from shareholder disputes to claims for breach of contract, tortious interference, defamation, fraud, negligence, antitrust, legal malpractice, and negligent supervision, among others. Lauren represents clients across a variety of industries. She is a member of the firm’s education initiative and regularly advises educational institutions on education law matters, including Title IX and Section 504 compliance, drawing on her experience as a past president and trustee of a charter school governing board. Lauren also represents clients in administrative proceedings and has handled administrative adjudications and appeals before the Utah Labor Commission, the Utah Public Service Commission, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Utah Department of Health, and the Utah State Board of Education.
Lauren regularly represents employers in matters relating to employment discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, the Family Medical Leave Act, privacy issues, and non-compete agreements and trade secret law. She also advises clients on personnel policies and has assisted employers in developing employee handbooks, non-compete agreements, non-solicitation agreements, and nondisclosure agreements.
Lauren has been recognized as one of “America’s Leading Lawyers for Business” (Utah) by Chambers USA (Litigation: General Commercial) and as a Mountain States Super Lawyer® (Business Litigation).
She is currently President of the Salt Lake County Bar Association and Co-Chair of the Salt Lake City office’s recruiting committee. She is also the pro bono coordinator for the Salt Lake City office. Her pro bono work includes partnering with the Rocky Mountain Innocence Center to litigate wrongful conviction cases.
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