Lauren D. Harrington

Lauren Debra Harrington is an associate in the Detroit (Metro) office. Lauren draws on a practice devoted exclusively to employment litigation and traditional labor law. She counsels and defends public and private-sector employers of various sizes from various industries, including but not limited to manufacturing, healthcare, e-commerce, retail, electric and gas, transportation and logistics and finance. Lauren routinely represents management before federal and state courts, arbitration panels, and administrative agencies in matters involving alleged discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wage-and-hour violations, breach of contract and wrongful discharge actions arising under Title VII, the ADA, the ADEA, the FLSA, the FMLA, and related state counterparts.

In the traditional labor realm, Lauren represents employers in National Labor Relations Board unfair-labor-practice proceedings, representation cases, and grievance arbitrations. She advises management teams on union-organizing campaigns, provides training to management on strategies to maintain direct relationships and avoid third-party interference, advises on neutrality and card-check agreements, and the interplay between the NLRA, state labor laws, and federal labor preemption doctrines. Lauren also drafts and negotiates collective-bargaining agreements and supports bargaining table sessions. Lauren also works closely with HR and Labor Relations teams to handle internal complaints and issues escalating through grievance procedures to best enforce contractual management-rights provisions and defend management decisions.

Lauren is a native Detroiter and graduate from Wayne State University Law School, where she gained invaluable experience through various legal opportunities during her time as a student. Lauren worked as an intern in the Office of Legal Counsel for the administration of Michigan’s Governor Whitmer. She also worked as a Judicial Extern to Former Michigan Court of Appeals Judge Cynthia D. Stephens. Motivated to address the needs of her home community, Lauren served as an advocate on the Coalition for Property Tax Justice in Detroit and as a student attorney for Lakeshore Legal Aid and the Elder Law Advocacy Center.