Lauren Teukolsky was born and raised in Ithaca, NY. She graduated from Harvard College in 1997, and from UCLA School of Law in 2000. At UCLA, Ms. Teukolsky was in the inaugural class of the Program in Public Interest Law and Policy, a group of faculty and students dedicated to accomplishing social change through the law. Ms. Teukolsky was an Articles Editor for the UCLA Law Review, was named a member of Order of the Coif, and won the law school's Roscoe Pound Moot Court Competition in 1999.

After graduating from law school, Ms. Teukolsky clerked for the Honorable Harry Pregerson on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal (2000-01), and for the Honorable A. Howard Matz on the District Court for the Central District of California (2001-02).

Since joining Hadsell Stormer Keeny Richardson & Renick as an associate in October 2002, Ms. Teukolsky has worked on a wide range of cases, including Bowoto v. Chevron and Doe v. Unocal, two high-profile international human rights cases against multinational oil companies. Ms. Teukolsky has worked on several class action lawsuits involving jail conditions, consumer rights, and wage and hour violations. Ms. Teukolsky has also successfully advocated on behalf of individual employees in cases involving discrimination, sexual harassment, retaliation and breach of contract.

From 2004 to 2008, Ms. Teukolsky was named a Southern California Rising Star in the Southern California Super Lawyers Rising Star Edition. Ms. Teukolsky is on the Board of the Eviction Defense Network, a nonprofit organization dedicated to defending the right to affordable housing and ensuring access to justice in housing matters to tenants in Los Angeles County.

Along with her colleague Cornelia Dai, Ms. Teukolsky is the co-author of "Employment Discrimination Law," Chapter 6 of the NLG Employee and Union Member Guide to Labor Law, 2004 Update (chapter originally authored by Hadsell & Stormer partner Anne Richardson). Ms. Teukolsky was admitted to the California Bar in 2000, and is a member of the California Employment Lawyers Association (CELA) and the National Lawyers Guild (NLG).