Lauren Schorr Potter is a Partner in Patterson Belknap’s Litigation department and a member of its White Collar Defense and Investigations team. Ms. Potter’s practice includes representation of individuals and companies in sensitive, complicated, and high-stakes criminal and regulatory matters, and internal investigations. Ms. Potter also represents companies in complex financial litigation. Ms. Potter has represented corporations and individuals in matters involving allegations of accounting fraud, cryptocurrency-related fraud, health care and medical device fraud, bribery, and violations of the False Claims Act.
In 2024, Ms. Potter was named to The New York Law Journal’s “Rising Stars” list.
Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Potter served for more than six years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where she was most recently co-chief of the Violent and Organized Crime Unit.
As a federal prosecutor in the Public Corruption and Violent and Organized Crime Units, Ms. Potter investigated and prosecuted a range of cases, including matters involving bribery, wire fraud, health care fraud, and racketeering. Her extensive litigation experience includes leading six federal criminal trials and arguing several appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Before joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Ms. Potter was an associate at an international law firm in New York. Ms. Potter previously served as a law clerk to the Hon. Ronnie Abrams of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and the Hon. Legrome D. Davis of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
- Served as counsel to the Independent Examiner in the FTX bankruptcy case, conducting extensive investigations and reporting on issues critical to the collapse of the FTX crypto exchange.
- Commercial disputes
- White collar crime
- J.D., magna cum laude, Georgetown University Law Center, 2009
- B.A., summa cum laude, University of Pennsylvania, 2006
- White Collar Crime Committee of the New York City Bar Association
- New York Lawyers for the Public Interest (Board Member)
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
- New York