Lauren McLaughlin

Practice Areas

Lauren McLaughlin is a partner in the Tysons, Virginia office of Smith Currie. For nearly 20 years, Lauren has represented owners, developers, contractors, subcontractors, sureties, and design professionals in all aspects of public and private construction projects. With that perspective, she counsels clients on project risk management and litigation avoidance. Lauren’s construction clients routinely involve her at all phases of the project, from conception and value engineering through final completion. The breadth of her practice includes working on diverse projects such as power plants, federal buildings and prison complexes, hotel and convention center complexes, urban housing and development programs, biomedical research facilities, and countless central utility plants. In these and other disputes, Lauren has successfully tried dozens of complex cases in state and federal courts in many states and the District of Columbia, as well as before arbitral panels, administrative boards and boards of contract appeals.

Professional Memberships

American Bar Association Forum on the Construction Industry and Fidelity & Surety Law Committee

Surety Claims Institute

Mechanical Contractors Association of America

Past Chair Construction Law and Public Contracts Section of the Virginia Bar Association Board Member

American Subcontractors Association of Metro-Washington Board Member

Virginia State Bar Construction section