Lauren Stinger

Education

• Rutgers School of Law, JD, 2014
• Rutgers University,  BA (magna cum laude), 2011

Lauren Stinger is an associate in the Philadelphia office, where she is a member of the Cyber and Data Privacy team. Her practice focuses on providing strategic counsel to clients experiencing data privacy, security incidents and reducing clients’ exposure to regulatory liability. Lauren advises clients on a wide range of privacy and security incidents, including ransomware attacks, fraudulent payments and wire fraud, business email compromises, inadvertent disclosures and other network intrusions.

Lauren brings more than a decade of experience leading complex regulatory, criminal, civil and administrative investigations in both US federal and New Jersey state governments. 

Prior to Kennedys, Lauren served as an investigative attorney for the Office of Inspector General for the US National Science Foundation, where she led complex multi-million dollar fraud investigations to ensure compliance with federal regulations for multi-national corporations, higher education entities and small businesses. Her work focused on confidential whistleblower investigations related to the False Claims Act, conflicts of interest, conspiracy and fraud, research misconduct and employment retaliation matters. She also served as an investigative attorney at the Office of Inspector General for the US Environmental Protection Agency where she led confidential whistleblower investigations involving senior agency officials and the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board. 

Lauren also served as deputy ethics counsel to the Office of Attorney Ethics for the Supreme Court of New Jersey. In that role, she investigated and prosecuted attorney misconduct matters, including complex financial misappropriations, theft and fraud, conflicts of interest, audit violations and other violations of the Rules of Professional Conduct. She litigated and argued before Special Ethics Masters, District Ethics Committees, the Disciplinary Review Board and the Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Lauren began her legal career as an assistant prosecutor in New Jersey, where she prosecuted domestic violence and special victim matters, criminal felonies and juvenile delinquency cases from investigation through trial and sentencing. She successfully litigated and argued over thirty cases, including homicide matters, before the Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division and supervised the Drug Court program.

During law school, Lauren was awarded a Henry J. Raimondo Legislative Graduate Fellowship from the Eagleton Institute of Politics and received multiple public service scholarships. She is also published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal for her honors behavioral neuroscience research while attending Rutgers University.