Drawing on her experience in the White House and US Senate, Lauren Moore advises clients on government and internal investigations and high-stakes litigation matters. She provides strategic counsel to clients facing complex issues at the intersection of law, politics, public policy, and media.  Her clients span various industries, including health care and insurance companies, financial institutions, technology and software companies, accounting firms, and nonprofit organizations.

Ms. Moore has established a leading crisis management practice for philanthropic institutions—including private foundations, community foundations, family offices, coalitions, and individual donors.  She advises more than two dozen philanthropies on sensitive internal investigations, congressional inquiries and state attorneys general investigations, federal rulemaking, and risk management across several areas of grantmaking.  

Ms. Moore also advises clients across industries on a broad range of public policy issues, including civil rights, international engagement, climate and energy, health care, college sports, and H-1B and other non-immigrant visa issues.  She recently advised a high-profile Republican donor on college sports legislation and bipartisan congressional outreach.  She has also advised multiple organizations and their boards on U.S.-China relations and related legal and reputational risks. 

Ms. Moore helps clients navigate all aspects of the congressional inquiry process.  She has been retained to lead engagements before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senate HELP Committee, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House Judiciary Committee, and the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, as well as inquiries from individual members and caucuses.  She also counsels individuals on all aspects of the Senate confirmation process.

In addition, Ms. Moore represents clients in litigation matters that have a significant public policy component.  She recently represented Tata Consultancy Services, an Indian information technology company, in qui tam litigation alleging fraudulent use of non-immigrant visas—securing an affirmance of dismissal in the Fifth Circuit and a partial affirmance of dismissal in the DC Circuit.

Since her return to private practice in 2022, Ms. Moore’s lawyering has been recognized by Bloomberg Law and the National Law Journal, among other publications. 

Prior Government Experience

Ms. Moore previously served in the White House Counsel’s Office, where she advised on civil rights legal and policy matters. In that role, she worked closely with senior officials across federal government, including Department of Justice officials and agency general counsels.  She also led preparation of multiple executive orders and provided legal advice on signature legislative priorities.  

Before that, Ms. Moore served on the US Senate Judiciary Committee, where she led preparation for judicial confirmation and oversight hearings. She advised on questions for public hearings, led policy proposals, and regularly engaged with external stakeholders and media.

Professional Activities

Ms. Moore is a senior fellow at UC Berkeley Law’s Edley Center on Law and Democracy.  The Edley Center’s mission is to strengthen democratic institutions in the United States through actionable research and public leadership.