Lauren Drake

Partner

Email: lauren.drake
Phone: 202.386.7380

Lauren is a Partner of Mlegal Group, Inc. She specializes in representing and placing partners, counsel, and groups into top global, national and regional law firms. Lauren also works on senior in-house assignments, and recently placed the global General Counsel of a worldwide professional services firm.

Lauren spent more than 16 years with international management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, providing her with a solid foundation in business knowledge. Prior to joining McKinsey, Lauren practiced telecommunications law in Washington, D.C., representing clients in corporate transactions and in administrative matters before the Federal Communications Commission. Lauren uses her legal and business background to provide clients and candidates with a comprehensive view of the market as she helps them navigate hiring and career decisions.

Prior to joining Mlegal Group, Lauren was a Partner at Major, Lindsey & Africa, a global legal recruiting firm.

Lauren earned her undergraduate degree in English at the University of Virginia. She earned her J.D. at the College of William and Mary where she was the regional Moot Court champion, as well as a national finalist and the top orator.

Lauren is the former head of the Partners Leadership Forum, a group of DC managing partners of major law firms, and the former Washington, D.C. Co-Chair of the Women in Law Empowerment Forum and its Global Advisory Board.