Lauren leads the Family Law practice and is a North Carolina State Bar Board Certified Specialist in Family Law.  Her experience encompasses various areas of civil litigation with a primary focus on complex familial issues.  Her practice includes premarital and post-marital agreements, complex equitable distribution, custody and child support litigation, and adoption.  Lauren routinely represents and counsels clients on financial family-related issues involving business valuations, pension valuations, military retirement division, Qualified Domestic Relations Orders, real property appraisals, and division of executive benefits.  She also has extensive experience with interstate custody and jurisdictional issues, high conflict custody cases, custody evaluations, and adoptions.

Lauren handles litigation and non-litigation matters involving mediation, arbitration, premarital and post-marital agreements, separation agreements, and surrogacy agreements.  She also represents clients before the NC Court of Appeals and NC Supreme Court on family-related cases after final judgment at the trial court level.  Lauren practices throughout Eastern North Carolina.  Prior to joining the firm, Lauren was a law clerk to Judge J. Douglas McCullough of the North Carolina Court of Appeals.