The Houston Business Journal has selected Haynes and Boone, LLP Partner Lauren Brogdon for its 2023 list of the city’s top 40 professionals under the age of 40.

The publication said it had reviewed hundreds of nominations “of impressive Houston young professionals” in selecting the 2023 honorees.

A partner in Haynes Boone’s Energy Litigation Practice and chair of the firm's national Crisis Management Practice Group, Lauren is one of only three practicing lawyers in HBJ’s 2023 40 under 40 class.

“Lauren is a consummate leader — both at the firm and in the community — who rightly deserves to be considered among Houston’s top professionals,” said Haynes Boone Partner Michelle Scheffler, co-chair of the firm’s Oil & Gas Practice Group.

Lauren established Haynes Boone’s multidisciplinary Crisis Management Practice Group, which focuses on representing corporations and individuals facing accidents, natural disasters, indictments, cybersecurity or privacy breaches, product deficiency, and other, potentially large-scale catastrophes. She also has significant experience representing energy clients in suits related to hydraulic fracturing and other oil and gas operations, mass tort litigation arising from catastrophic industrial accidents, and toxic tort suits involving chemical exposure and environmental contamination.

Lauren devotes significant time and resources to charitable activities and pro bono litigation. She served as chair of Houston Volunteer Lawyers (HVL) – the largest provider of pro bono services in Harris County. She has handled 85 cases for HVL and, in 2022 alone, volunteered at 27 HVL legal aid clinics.

She was recently featured in a Texas Lawbook article where she discussed surviving childhood domestic abuse and how that has shaped her career as a crisis management lawyer and has inspired her volunteer work.

“As someone with that experience and someone with a law degree, I’m uniquely situated to help other survivors and other women and children struggling from domestic violence,” Lauren told the Texas Lawbook.