Lauren M. Case

Senior Associate

  • Lauren M. Case
  • Phone: +1 415 957 3024

    Import to Address Book

  • Duane Morris LLP
    Spear Tower
    One Market Plaza, Suite 2200
    San Francisco, CA 94105-1127
    USA
  • Duane Morris LLP
    701 Fifth Avenue
    Columbia Tower, 42nd Floor
    Seattle, WA 98104
    USA

Lauren M. Case is a trial lawyer with over a decade of experience representing clients in complex commercial matters in state and federal court.  She is a member of the firm’s Insurance & Reinsurance Industry Group, and represents insurance industry clients in insurance coverage litigation.  She works on complex matters involving multiple parties, frequently related to underlying environmental cleanup.  As a member of the firm’s Gaming Industry Group, Lauren also has extensive experience representing gaming and digital entertainment clients in class action lawsuits throughout the United States.  Lauren also has experience representing clients in the financial services industry.  Lauren regularly works on pro bono matters, most recently involving expungement of criminal records, and asylum for refugees from Afghanistan.  Lauren is licensed in both California and Washington state. 

Lauren serves as the programing chair for the Women’s Impact Network for Success (WINS) in the San Francisco office.  She is a 2011 graduate of Santa Clara University School of Law, and 2006 graduate of Duke University.  Go Blue Devils!  

Areas of Practice

  • Commercial Litigation
  • Insurance Coverage Litigation
  • Consumer Class Action Litigation
  • Gaming and Digital Entertainment

Admissions

  • California
  • Washington (for state)
  • U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
  • U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Education

  • Santa Clara University School of Law, J.D., 2011
    - Comments Editor, Santa Clara Law Review
  • Duke University, B.A., 2006

Experience

  • Duane Morris LLP
    - Senior Associate, 2025-present
    - Associate, 2016-2024

  • Hayes Scott Bonino Ellingson & McLay
    - Associate, 2013-2016
  • Yaron & Associates
    - Associate, 2012-2013

Professional Activities

  • American Bar Association
  • Bar Association of San Francisco
  • Association of Business Trial Lawyers, Leadership Development Committee
  • Duane Morris Pro Bono Committee
  • Start Small Think Big Founding Partner Advisory Council

Selected Speaking Engagements

  • "Women in Insurance Network Regional CLE Program," American Bar Association, November 8-9, 2018

  • "Hidden Traps of Wraps," American Bar Association Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee CLE Seminar, March 2018

  • "Allocation Nation: Current Developments in Distribution Between Covered and Uncovered Loss," American Bar Association Women in Litigation Joint Conference, November 15-17, 2017

Representative Matters

  • Defending international gaming companies against mass actions alleging unlawful gambling pursuant to gambling loss recovery acts in Alabama and Tennessee.

  • Defend global gaming company IGT in one of a series of putative class actions filed against various leading “social casinos” asserting the right to recover amounts spent by players on virtual coins under the Washington State gambling loss recovery act. Benson v. Double Down Interactive, LLC, District Court for the Western District of Washington, Case No. 2:18-cv-00525.

  • Successfully defended client against temporary restraining order and compelled arbitration. Nessim v. Fliff, Inc., District Court for the Central District of California, Case No. 5:23-CV-01048-SSS-SHKX.

  • Represented insurers in multi-party litigation in Washington state related to cleanup of the Lower Duwamish Waterway Superfund Site. E.g., King County. v. Travelers Indem. Co., District Court for the Western District of Washington, Case No. 2:14-CV-01957 BJR.

  • Represented international insurer in multi-party litigation in Washington state related to coverage for cleanup of creosote-treated piling removal project at Port Gamble, Washington.