Lauren Cole Daniel

Lauren Daniel is a senior associate in Arnold & Porter's Washington, D.C., office and handles a wide range of environmental disputes, including actions under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA); the Ol Pollution Act (OPA); the Clean Water Act (CWA); and a variety of state environmental laws. Ms. Daniel has particular expertise in NRD litigation and cost recovery and contribution actions under these statutes. In addition, Ms. Daniel helps advise clients with respect to a variety of environmental regulatory, permitting, and enforcement issues under various federal and state environmental statutes, with a focus on environmental remediation issues.

Ms. Daniel currently serves currently serves as co-chair of the American Bar Association Committee on Superfund and Natural Resource Damages Litigation. She graduated cum laude from Claremont McKenna College in 2008, where she received a BA in philosophy and international relations and was awarded departmental honors in both philosophy and government. Ms. Daniel received her JD from Columbia Law School in 2012, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, the recipient of the 2012 Alfred A. Forsyth Prize for Qualities of Intellect and Self Dedication to the Advancement of Environmental Law, and acted as president of the Columbia Environmental Law Society.