Ms. Lobenherz, an associate in K&L Gates' Washington, D.C. office, concentrates her practice on matters of mortgage banking and consumer credit.
During law school, Ms. Lobenherz was active as a student advocate in the Disability Clinic for Harvard Law School's Legal Services Center representing claimants before Social Security hearings. Her work with the Legal Services Center allowed her to receive the Clinical Legal Education Association Outstanding Clinical Student Award in 2009 and the Association of Corporate Counsel Law Student Ethics Award in 2008. Through an Equal Justice America Fellowship in Fall 2008, Ms. Lobenherz started a policy project, Esmie's Law, designed to amend divorced spouse benefits under the Social Security Act by creating an exception for victims of domestic violence to the ten year marriage duration requirement. Ms. Lobenherz worked as managing editor of the Harvard Environmental Law Review and, through the Harvard Environmental Law and Policy Clinic, worked with the California Attorney General's Office in preparing a comment to the EPA's Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding the regulation of greenhouse gases. In 2007, she interned with the U.S. Department of Justice in the Environmental Crimes Section. Ms. Lobenherz was a summer associate with K&L Gates in 2008. After law school, Ms. Lobenherz worked as a research assistant to Professor James Greiner at Harvard Law School, assisting with work on a study to determine the effectiveness of legal representation in administrative hearings.