Whether executing a precision strike on cross-examination or applying a soft touch as needed, Lauren Caisman is an accomplished litigator and formidable advocate for her clients. With her trial experience, Lauren has gained a perceptive ability to examine a situation and deploy a successful strategy to achieve her clients’ goals in all aspects of commercial, biometric privacy, class action, and products liability litigation. Lauren has broad and substantive litigation experience in state and federal courts, arbitrations, and administrative agency proceedings, including in case development and strategy, pleadings and motion practice, written and oral discovery, court hearings, and appeals.

Lauren prides herself on her ability to play devil’s advocate, and clients find her knack of seeing around corners to anticipate problems and tackle solutions and arguments from all angles truly invaluable. Individual and corporate clients in the food, security services, manufacturing, healthcare, luxury goods, banking, and pharmaceutical industries count on Lauren to lead them through challenging situations ranging from claims involving breach of contract, trade secrets, negligence, unfair competition, interference with contract and prospective economic advantage, defamation, and other torts.

Lauren is experienced on biometric and genetic privacy issues, assisting clients with navigating significant class action litigation under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act and Illinois Genetic Information Privacy Act, in addition to implementing biometric and genetic privacy-compliant policies and procedures for clients across the country and across all industries. Lauren has also helped clients in the media industry to resolve commercial and contractual disputes, as well as solve First Amendment and other content-related problems. She has represented content providers and distributors in defamation and privacy-related matters and has pursued access to government documents under the First Amendment, Freedom of Information Act, and other applicable laws. 

Lauren is the Chair of the Federal Bar Association’s Younger Lawyers Division and member of the Federal Bar Association Board. Previously, Lauren has been a member of the Illinois State Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Women & the Law and on the Section Counsel for the ISBA’s Civil Practice and Procedure Section. Lauren also serves on BCLP’s Women’s Board and National Recruiting Committee and is the Recruiting Chair of BCLP’s Chicago office. Lauren is also a Junior Board Member for the British American Business Council-Chicago.

Before joining BCLP, Lauren represented Northwestern University as a member of the Bartlit Center Trial Team and served as an Associate Editor of the Northwestern University Law Review. She also completed a judicial externship in the chambers of Northern District of Illinois Bankruptcy Judge Susan Pierson Sonderby. Lauren is a Chicago native and avid Michigan Wolverine who enjoys golfing, reality television, and her Cavapoochon Steggy.