Lauren Hartz graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College in 2009 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Linguistics with Honors and a minor in Classical Languages and Literatures. She now serves as a Senior Legal Assistant for the firm.
While at Dartmouth, Ms. Hartz was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Order of Omega, and Green Key societies. She participated actively in her sorority and senior society, as well as Mock Trial Society and Council on Student Organizations. Her community service involvement included Biloxi Service Corp and Project Preservation, an initiative to restore and reclaim Jewish cemeteries in Eastern Europe. Ms. Hartz traveled to New Zealand on a Foreign Study Program. Ms. Hartz has previously interned as a non-attorney advocate at Pine Tree Legal Assistance in Bangor, Maine and as a legal intern in the Civil and Criminal Divisions of the Office of the Attorney General of Guam in Hagatna, Guam. Ms. Hartz has particular interest in the intersection of language and law and wrote her Senior Honors Thesis on the use of discourse analysis as a credibility assessment tool for child sexual abuse allegations.
She plans to attend law school in the future.