Lauren Teukolsky has more than 20 years of experience litigating employment cases. She founded Teukolsky Law in 2017 after practicing law at some of California's most prestigious civil rights law firms and organizations. A cum laude graduate of Harvard College (B.A.), Ms. Teukolsky graduated in the top 10 of her class at UCLA School of Law (J.D.), where she was an Articles Editor for the UCLA Law Review and won the law school's Moot Court competition. After graduating, Ms. Teukolsky completed back-to-back federal clerkships with the Honorable Harry Pregerson on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Honorable A. Howard Matz at the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
After clerking, Ms. Teukolsky received top-notch training from the legendary trial attorney Dan Stormer as an associate at Hadsell Stormer Renick & Dai LLP for eight years. She then specialized in plaintiff-side employment litigation as a partner for six years at Traber & Voorhees and Baltodano & Baltodano LLP. During her tenure at these prominent civil rights firms, Ms. Teukolsky litigated major employment cases against defendants such as Walmart, CVS, and Albertson’s, recovering more than $30 million on behalf of her clients. Ms. Teukolsky also served as the Pro Bono Director at Bet Tzedek Legal Services, one of the largest non-profit legal services providers in Los Angeles. In 2022, Ms. Teukolsky was elected as a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, the premier peer-selected organization of labor and employment lawyers in the United States. Election as a Fellow is “the highest recognition by one’s colleagues of sustained outstanding performance in the profession, exemplifying integrity, dedication and excellence.” In 2024, she was selected to serve on the Executive Committee of the California Lawyers Association (CLA) Labor & Employment Section, a statewide bar organization serving thousands of employment attorneys in California. Ms. Teukolsky was the recipient of a 2016 California Lawyer of the Year (CLAY) award for her work on Carrillo v. Schneider, a wage-and-hour class action against Walmart and others on behalf of warehouse workers in the Inland Empire, which settled for $22.7 million after years of complex litigation. She has been selected as a Southern California “Super Lawyer” in Los Angeles Magazine and Law & Politics Magazine each year since 2013, and a "Rising Star" by the same publications each year from 2004 to 2010. She has been selected to the "Top 100" list of Southern California Super Lawyers (2023, 2024)and the "Top 50" Women Southern California Super Lawyers (2022-2024). Ms. Teukolsky is a frequent speaker and panelist at statewide conferences and legal training seminars, focusing on employment law issues and litigation skills. She is a long-standing member of the California Employment Lawyers Association (CELA), a statewide organization of more than 1,200 plaintiff-side employment attorneys, and has served as Co-Chair of CELA's Wage & Hour Committee. |
Ms. Teukolsky's recent and upcoming speaking engagements include:
- California Lawyers Association (CLA), 2025 New Employment Practitioner Conference, "Wage & Hour 101," January 2025 (forthcoming)
- Berkeley School of Law, 2025 CLE Conference on Gender Discrimination and Harassment Law, "Forced Arbitration," January 2025 (forthcoming)
- California Employment Lawyers Association (CELA), Leadership Conservatory Training, "Differing Leadership Styles," November 2024
- UCLA Law Women LEAD Summit, "Winning and Defeating PAGA Cases: Assess, Litigate and Triumph after AB 2288 and SB92," September 2024
- California Employment Lawyers Association (CELA) Wage & Hour Committee Roundtable, "Litigating PAGA Claims in the Aftermath of Adolph v Uber," January 2024
- California Lawyers Association (CLA) Labor & Employment Section, 13th Annual Advanced Wage and Hour Conference, "Wage-and-Hour Arbitrations in a Post-Adolph World," October 2023
- California Lawyers Association (CLA), "PAGA Claims After Adolph v Uber," October 2023
- California Employment Lawyers Association (CELA), 36th Annual Employment Law Conference, "Arbitrating Wage & Hour Cases From Start To Finish," September 2023
- Alameda County Bar Association (ACBA), Labor and Employment Symposium, "Two Supreme Courts on the Future of PAGA," September 2023
- Beverly Hills Bar Association, "The Future of PAGA After the California Supreme Court's Ruling in Adolph v Uber," August 2023
- Southern California Labor and Employment Relations Association (SoCal LERA), "Hot Topics in Severance and Settlement Agreements," April 2023
- College of Labor and Employment Law, "Litigating PAGA Claims after Viking River Cruises," September 2022
- California Employment Lawyers Association (CELA), "Navigating PAGA's Choppy Waters: Viking River Cruises and Other Threats to PAGA," July 2022
- UCLA School of Law, "Lawyering Skills: Lawyers as Storytellers," February 2022
- Western Center on Law & Poverty (WCLP), Discovery Academy, "Developing a Case Plan," November 2021
- American Bar Association (ABA) Labor & Employment Section, 15th Annual Conference, "The Rise of the Remote Workforce and Its Impact on the Employee Relationship," November 2021
- Western Center on Law & Poverty (WCLP), Discovery Academy, "Overall Approaches to Discovery," October 2021
- Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (CAALA), 2021 Annual Vegas Conference, "Oppose That Arbitration," September 2021
- California Lawyers Association (CLA, formerly State Bar) Labor & Employment Section, 2021 Annual Conference, "Emerging Wage & Hour Trends," July 2021
- California Employment Lawyers Association (CELA), 2021 Advanced Wage and Hour Seminar, "Distress Call: How to Evaluate Claims of Financial Distress by Defendants in Wage-and-Hour Cases," June 2021
- Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA), "Employment Issues During COVID-19," July 2020
- California Employment Lawyers Association (CELA), 2020 Advanced Wage and Hour Seminar, "An Epic Problem: Mass Arbitration and Other Strategies for Responding to Class Action Waivers," June 2020
- Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA) Labor & Employment Section, "Arbitration Baker's Dozen: The 13 Cases You Need to Know to Compel (or Avoid) Arbitration," March 2020
- Pasadena Bar Association Labor & Employment Section, "Independent Contractors after Dynamex and AB 5," February 2020
- Bridgeport Legal Conferences, 2019 Annual Wage and Hour Conference, "Post Epic Systems Developments in Arbitration," December 2019
- UCLA School of Law, "Lawyering in the Real World," September 2019
- Bridgeport Legal Conferences, 2019 PAGA Workshop Los Angeles, "Settlement and Arbitration Issues," March 2019
- Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA) Labor and Employment Section Conference, "Nuts and Bolts of Wage and Hour Law," November 2017
- State Bar of California Labor & Employment Law Section, Seventh Annual Advanced Wage & Hour Conference, "The Annual Update,” July 2017
- Coalition of Low-Wage & Immigrant Worker Advocates (CLIWA), Annual Retreat, "Joint Employer," June 2017
- California Employment Lawyers Association (CELA), 2016 Annual Conference, “Making Joint Employers Play Right,” September 2016
- State Bar of California Labor & Employment Law Section, Sixth Annual Advanced Wage & Hour Conference, "Arbitration Agreements, Class Certification and PAGA: Crossing Over from the Theoretical to the Practical,” July 2016
- California Employment Lawyers Association (CELA), 2016 Advanced Wage and Hour Seminar, “Everything I Needed to Know About Arbitration I Learned Before Lunch,” May 2016
- Bridgeport Legal Conferences, 2015 Annual Wage & Hour Conference, "What Makes A Good Wage and Hour Case from the Plaintiff’s Perspective,” December 2015
- Bridgeport Legal Conferences, Litigating & Defending Discrimination & Harassment Claims, "Winning Strategies for Discovery & Taking Depositions,” August 2015
- Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA) Labor and Employment Section Conference, “Nuts and Bolts of Wage and Hour Law,” November 2014
- California Employment Lawyers Association (CELA), 2014 Annual Conference, “Lessons Learned from Winning,” October 2014
- Bridgeport Legal Conferences, 2013 Annual Wage & Hour Conference, “Strategies for Settlement of Wage & Hour Cases,” December 2013