Biography
Lauren advises multinational corporations on ESG, product stewardship, supply chain transparency, and waste and recycling compliance, helping them manage risk and implement business-aligned solutions across operations.
Her practice focuses on supply chain transparency, sustainability and climate disclosures, extended producer responsibility (EPR), packaging and labeling, and hazardous waste obligations under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and state and international analogues.
Lauren’s work sits at the intersection of ESG strategy and operational execution, supporting legal, sustainability, procurement, and technical teams across complex, multi-jurisdictional regulatory regimes. She also advises on green marketing and greenwashing risk, enforcement exposure, and litigation-adjacent compliance strategies.
Representative experience includes:
- Advising on sustainability disclosures and governance, including benchmarking and due diligence across business models and global frameworks.
- Compiling and analyzing international climate disclosure frameworks to support a global technology company’s reporting obligations.
- Contributing to an amicus brief addressing the SEC's climate disclosure rules.
- Preparing modern slavery and human rights overviews for the EU, Australia, Canada, and the U.S.
- Developing practical compliance tools and regulatory trackers covering global ESG developments, plastics regulations, EPR requirements, labeling and recycled content mandates, and hazardous waste requirements.
- Evaluating packaging components for recyclability and advising on packaging and labeling requirements, including when products and packaging may be marketed as recyclable.
- Developing compliance strategies for U.S., and international packaging programs, including the use of recyclability symbols and resin identification codes.
- Translating evolving CalRecycle guidance and industry standards into defensible, operational compliance solutions.
- Drafting green marketing policies and assessing greenwashing risk, including litigation and regulatory exposure.
- Advising waste companies on compliant solutions, including drafting proposed legislative text and drafting letters to regulators.
- Advising corporations on RCRA and state solid and hazardous waste rules, including recyclability determinations, scrap metal exemptions and permitting, and the classification, remediation, and proper disposal of hazardous waste.
Lauren frequently writes and speaks on sustainability, green marketing and greenwashing risk, ESG enforcement, and environmental risk.
Before joining Beveridge & Diamond, she was an associate at a plaintiff-side complex litigation firm in Seattle, representing consumer and government-entity plaintiffs in class actions and multidistrict litigations.
Education
- University of California - Santa Barbara (B.A., 2019)
- Environmental Studies & Geography
- Honors College & Distinction in Major
- Honors Thesis: Frack(in) or Frack(out): A Comparative Study of the Successes and Failures of Santa Barbara County’s Measure P and Mendocino County’s Measure S
- Vanderbilt University (J.D., 2022)
- Captain, Jessup International Law Moot Court Team
- Thomas C. Banks Award, Outstanding Jessup Team Member
- President, Energy and Environmental Law Society
- Appointed Member of Vanderbilt University’s Sustainability Advisory Council
Bar Admissions
Court Admissions
- U.S. District Court – Western District of Washington
Publications
- Lauren M. Lankenau, Global Climate Disclosures Amid U.S. Rollbacks, 40 Nat. Resources & Env’t 56 (2025).
- Lauren M. Lankenau (co-author), Environmental Liabilities, The Complete Compliance and Ethics Manual, Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (2025).

