Lauren DaValle concentrates her practice in litigation, mainly defending employees and units of local government in State and Federal Court. She specializes in § 1983 Civil Rights litigation as well as claims under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Lauren also handles general municipal matters, advising clients on the Open Meetings Act, Freedom of Information Act, agenda matters, ordinances, resolutions, planning and zoning matters.
Lauren is a graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio where she received degrees in Public Administration and Urban and Regional Planning. After college she attended the University of Illinois at Chicago Law School (formerly John Marshall), and was sworn in as an attorney in November of 2010. She worked as an Assistant States Attorney for the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office for over seven years where she participated in all stages of criminal prosecutions from felony charging decisions to preliminary hearings to litigating motions, bench and jury trials.
Lauren is a member of the Chicago Bar Association and serves on its judicial review committee. She is also a member of the Justinian Society of Lawyers, the Federal Bar Association and the Illinois Local Government Lawyers Association. She serves as a Commissioner on the Zoning Board of Appeals for the Village of La Grange and volunteers with the peerWISE program at Lurie Children’s Hospital. Lauren was recognized by the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin as one of the Class of 2023 Forty under 40 Illinois Attorneys to Watch.
In her free time, Lauren enjoys traveling to warm weather destinations and spending time with her large extended family and their dogs.