Lauren Caisman, a Partner in Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP’s Commercial Disputes and Class Action Practice Groups, 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 complex commercial, biometric privacy, class action, and products liability litigation. Lauren also 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, luxury goods, banking, and pharmaceutical sectors count on Lauren to lead them through challenging situations ranging from claims involving breach of contract, restrictive covenants, trade secrets, warranty and negligence, and other torts.
Lauren is experienced on biometric issues, assisting clients with navigating significant class action litigation under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act and 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.
Law360 recognized Lauren as a Rising Star in Cybersecurity/Privacy in 2022 and Super Lawyers has recognized Lauren as an Illinois Rising Star since 2021.
Lauren 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.
Lauren graduated cum laude from the Northwestern University School of Law where she represented Northwestern as a member of the Bartlit Center Trial Team and served as an Associate Editor of the Northwestern University Law Review. Lauren is a Chicago native and avid Michigan Wolverine who enjoys golfing, reality television, and her dog Steggy.