Lauren J. Kelleher

Lauren J. Kelleher represents individual clients, plaintiff classes, and organizations in a variety of complex litigation matters challenging disability and religious discrimination, pay issues, wrongful convictions, and unlawful housing practices.

Since joining Brown, Goldstein & Levy in 2022 Lauren has litigated cases in state and federal trial courts as well as courts of appeal. She has a robust employment and disability rights practice and has successfully represented clients in cases of individual and class-based discrimination against entities ranging from small employers to large government actors. Lauren is well-versed in litigation to remedy systemic discriminatory practices.

Lauren enjoys working closely with clients, telling their stories effectively, and advocating creatively for them all while ensuring they have the advice and counsel needed to understand all available options.

Before joining the firm, Lauren served as an Assistant Attorney General for the Maryland Office of the Attorney General’s Consumer Protection Division where she investigated and litigated against pharmaceutical companies for their role in the opioid epidemic and as a Trial Attorney at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. She also clerked for the Honorable Terrence G. Berg on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.

Before law school, Lauren worked at a prisoners’ rights non-profit in California that successfully challenged overcrowding in the state’s institutions before the Supreme Court and monitored conditions in institutions statewide. In college, Lauren worked with her university’s innocence project on an investigation that resulted in the exoneration of an innocent man who spent 30 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Lauren lives in Baltimore with her husband and two kids.