Lauren Dockter worked in-house for over 10 years as the American Physical Therapy Association’s Deputy General Counsel.  In that role she handled myriad non-profit matters including intellectual property, data security and audits, PCI compliance, corporate governance, CASL, CAN-SPAM, GDPR, lobbying laws, registry and HIPAA matters, antitrust, websites, social media, publications, accreditation, professional development, government affairs, employment, and insurance.

Lauren negotiated the majority of the Association’s contracts, standardize the contract process to increase efficiencies, and presented contract training seminars. Additionally, she ran the Association’s Ethics and Judicial Committee, a bylaws mandated committee that processed highly sensitive ethics cases and produced ethics educational materials via online courses, articles, and podcasts.

Before working in-house, Lauren worked at large and medium sized law firms in Chicago.  She handled multi-million-dollar environmental insurance cases at Hinshaw & Culbertson and business litigation at Schoenberg, Finkel, Newman & Rosenberg.