Lauren Connell works with our Pro Bono Partner to manage the firm’s pro bono practice and develop pro bono opportunities for our lawyers.

Lauren maintains an active immigration practice, with a particular focus on defensive asylum and representation of detained migrants.  She also advises nonprofit organizations on corporate governance matters. Before becoming pro bono counsel, she practiced corporate law at Akin, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions and securities transactions.

Lauren began her Akin career working as the coordinator of the Karnes City Immigrant Family Pro Bono Project in San Antonio, Texas. In this role, she represented detained Central American women and children refugees seeking asylum in the United States and also coordinated the pro bono effort to match lawyers to clients. Her work was profiled in the National Law Journal and also recognized in The New York Times Magazine.

While in law school, Lauren served as an executive editor of The University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law.