Lauren Handel
Principal Attorney
Lauren Handel is an attorney for food, beverage, and dietary supplement businesses and entrepreneurs. Lauren helps clients with regulatory compliance and enforcement actions, risk mitigation, contracts, intellectual property, recalls, and disputes.
Lauren has more than 20 years of experience as an attorney. She previously was a partner at McDermott Will & Emery LLP where her practice concentrated on product liability and environmental litigation. After a decade of counseling and defending Fortune 50 companies, Lauren decided to put her skills to work for independent businesses that produce the things she is most passionate about − good food and drink.
Lauren earned her bachelor of arts degree, cum laude, from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1997; her JD, cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center in 2002; and an LLM in Agricultural and Food Law at the University of Arkansas School of Law in 2013. She is admitted to practice in Arkansas, Maryland, New Jersey, and New York.
Lauren frequently speaks at seminars for the food industry, and she has taught several CLEs on food labeling law and food business contracts.