Lauren Sandground is a senior associate in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. As a member of the Insurance Recovery and Counseling practice group, she represents insurance policyholders in obtaining coverage under standard business and liability policies—including general liability, property, directors and officers, employment liability, and professional liability policies—as well as specialty policies—particularly product recall and contamination, representations and warranties, and marine/stock policies.
Lauren has experience guiding her clients through every stage of an insurance claim. On a daily basis, she is advocating for her policyholder clients through negotiating, mediating, arbitrating, and litigating coverage disputes. Before a claim even happens, she counsels clients as to initial placement and renewal of insurance policies. Lauren also regularly provides advice to clients undergoing corporate transactions with respect to insurance.
She frequently works with consumer product companies in the food and beverage and beauty and cosmetics industries. Her experience includes advising these companies with respect to traditional bodily injury and property damage claims, product contamination and recall events, business interruption, and long-tail exposure claims. Lauren brings a strategic perspective to her practice to achieve her client’s risk management and insurance recovery goals.
Lauren is committed to pro bono, particularly in support of matters relating to public international law, immigration, and the arts. Internationally ranked for her oral argument skills while at University of Virginia School of Law, she continues to coach the school's award-winning Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court team. As a percussionist and proud supporter of the arts, Lauren serves on the board of the non-profit, Network for Diversity in Concert Percussion, whose mission is to create a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive concert percussion community.
Lauren leads the firm’s Insurance Recovery and Counseling Associates and Counsel Committee and is Co-Chair of the Washington, D.C., office’s Associates and Analysts Committee.
During law school, Lauren interned with the US Attorney's Office for the District of Arizona and the Virginia Commonwealth's Attorney for the City of Waynesboro. She was also a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Public and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany. Prior to attending law school, she was a paralegal at her grandfather's family law practice in Virginia.
- Recognized by The Legal 500 United Kingdom as a Recommended Lawyer for Insurance Litigation: for Policyholders in London, 2026
- Board Member, Network for Diversity in Concert Percussion (2021 – present)
- Coach, University of Virginia School of Law Philip C. Jessup Moot Court Team (2018 – present)
- Junior Board Member, Network for Victim Recovery of DC (2020 – 2022)
- Presenter, “The Next Generation of Mass Tort: Taking On The Next Asbestos,” ABA Litigation Section's Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee CLE Seminar (forthcoming, March 2026, Tucson, AZ)
- Moderator, “Ensuring Resilience: A Conversation with Risk Managers on Insurance and Business Risk Mitigation,” Luxury Law Summit (November 2025, New York City, NY)
- Moderator, “Bumping Up, Multiplying, and Weighing the Risks: What’s on the Horizon for Transactional and M&A Insurance and Litigation,” ABA Litigation Section’s Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee CLE Seminar (March 2024, Tucson, AZ)
- Presenter, “What Consumer Products Companies Need To Know About Insurance,” K&L Gates Seminar (October-November 2023, Virtual)
- Presenter, “It’s a Deal, But What Comes Next? Coverage Under Transactional Risk Insurance,” ABA Litigation Section’s Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee CLE Seminar (March 2023, Tucson, AZ)
- Presenter, “Insurance for Product Recalls,” K&L Gates’ Insurance Recovery & Counseling Curriculum (January 2023, Washington, DC)
- Sandground, L. (2022). The Division of an Empire and the Treaty of Sèvres. In: Gray, K.W. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Territorial Rights. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68846-6_633-1.
- Sandground, L. (2022). Maritime Boundary Dispute Within Canadian Federalism: Newfoundland and Labrador v. Nova Scotia. In: Gray, K.W. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Territorial Rights. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68846-6_632-1.
- Mentioned, ISDS: “reform in the air,” GlobalArbitrationReview.com, 29 November 2021
- Mentioned, "Insurer Claims It Did Not Breach Contract In Benzene Exposure Dispute," Mealey’s Litigation Report, 29 July 2021
