Lauren N. Wortman is an Associate in our Atlanta office, and she represents clients in a wide variety of workers’ compensation matters.

She defends employers and insurers in workers’ compensation claims, and handles everything from initial opinion letters, motions and briefs, discovery requests and answers, and trials before administrative law judges.

Earlier in her career, Lauren was an insurance coverage associate and an insurance defense attorney at other Atlanta-area firms. She also served as a research assistant at the Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law, a law clerk at the Federal Highway Administration, and a law clerk at other firms in Georgia.

Lauren earned a Juris Doctorate degree from the Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University, and she served as a law clerk to Judge Harold Hinesley of the Toombs Judicial Circuit. She also completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science with a minor in psychology from Augusta University (formerly called Georgia Regents University). During her undergraduate studies, she was an active participant in the Model United Nations

EXPERIENCE

Lauren defends employers and insurers in all manner of workers’ compensation disputes, and has written numerous initial opinion letters, motions and briefs. She has also handled discovery requests and answers, and represented clients at trial before administrative law judges.

ADMITTED

• Georgia Courts
• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
• U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia
• U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia

EDUCATION

• J.D., Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law
• B.A., Augusta University