Lauren Fischer is an associate in the Los Angeles Office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Her practice focuses on labor and employment litigation and internal investigations, as well as on white collar defense and government investigations. Lauren has experience representing employers in class action litigation involving discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wage and hour claims. She also represents corporate clients in criminal, civil, and regulatory investigations and related judicial proceedings. Lauren counsels employers on a wide variety of employment and compliance issues, including hiring, terminations, anti-harassment and anti-discrimination programs, pay equity, personnel policies, employee handbooks, disability accommodation, family and medical leave matters, job classification, meal and rest breaks, and payroll laws. She earned her law degree in 2017 from UCLA Law School. While in law school, Lauren served as Judicial Extern to the Honorable Alex Kozinski of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and to the Honorable Sandra S. Ikuta of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She also served as a Submissions Editor of the Journal of Law and Technology and was a Benjamin Aaron Memorial Scholar. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from UCLA in 2013. Lauren is a member of the State Bar of California and is admitted to practice law before the United States District Court for the Central District of California.