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Lauren Newby

Newby_Lauren

Lauren Newby

Associate

Washington DC + 1 202 663 6318
Lauren Newby counsels clients in a broad range of defense and national security matters. She joined WilmerHale in 2024 as a summer associate. Prior to law school, Lauren worked at a defense contractor, where she specialized on advising government and private sector clients on security issues in Iraq. She also served as a graduate consultant to the US Department of State’s Libya External Office and as a graduate intern on the US House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform’s Subcommittee on National Security. During law school, Ms. Newby interned at the US Department of Justice in the Office of Justice for Victims of Overseas Terrorism and worked as a research assistant for Professor Naz K. Modirzadeh focusing on the evolution of the Law of Armed Conflict.

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Credentials

  • Education

    • JD, Harvard Law School, 2025

      magna cum laude

    • MA, International Security Policy, Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs, 2022

    • BA, Political Science, Stanford University, 2017

      Honors in International Security Studies

      Phi Beta Kappa

  • Admissions

    • District of Columbia

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