Lauren Handel

Lauren Handel is the founder and principal attorney of Handel Food Law PLLC, a firm that works exclusively with food, beverage, and farming businesses. She advises clients on FDA and USDA regulatory compliance, food labeling and advertising, contracts, and intellectual property, and serves as outside general counsel to growing food companies. Before founding the firm, she spent more than a decade in large-firm litigation, most recently as a partner at McDermott Will & Emery, representing major companies in product liability and environmental matters. She holds an LL.M. in Agricultural and Food Law from the University of Arkansas School of Law and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, and she writes and lectures frequently on food and agricultural law.