Lauren Bell

Ms. Bell’s practice focuses on complex business litigation, white collar criminal defense, and government and internal investigations. Ms. Bell has represented technology, energy, life sciences, and financial services companies in high-stakes civil litigation.

In November 2023, Ms. Bell served as co-lead counsel for Google in the multidistrict antitrust litigation involving Google’s business practices and business model for the Google Play Store. Ms. Bell also served as co-lead of an extensive internal investigation for UC Berkeley related to allegations of discrimination and abusive conduct toward student-athletes by longtime Cal women’s swimming head coach, Teri McKeever. The investigation culminated in a publicly disclosed investigation report.

Prior to her current private practice, Ms. Bell was senior counsel to the assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division, where she provided high-level reviews of complex white collar fraud, money laundering, and public corruption investigations, and advised on prosecutorial decisions, resolutions, and public statements. As acting chief of staff to the assistant attorney general, she managed the oversight of all 16 Criminal Division sections and supervised responses to congressional inquiries.

Ms. Bell also served as a trial attorney in the Department of Justice’s Public Integrity Section, where she directed public corruption investigations and prosecutions and served as lead counsel at trial. As an assistant United States attorney in the Northern District of Ohio, she focused on criminal civil rights matters, including police misconduct and human trafficking cases, and fraud cases. Earlier in her career, as assistant prosecuting attorney in the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office, in Ohio, she prosecuted felony offenses, resulting in her appointment to the Major Trial Division where she prosecuted the most serious offenses handled by her office.

Ms. Bell has been recognized by the Department of Justice with the Assistant Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service and the Attorney General Special Commendation Award. She is the author of the chapter “Corporate Cooperation: Benefits and Challenges” in International Comparative Legal Guide – Corporate Investigations 2021 and has been quoted in Law360.