Laura Geringer Gross
Biography
Laura has more than 20 years of experience representing employers before various governmental agencies, defending employers in employment-related litigation, counseling employers on various employment issues, and training employees on human resource and employment law issues.
Practices
Recognition & Honors
- Best Lawyers in America, 2020-2025
- Humanitarian Award Honoree; Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities, Tidewater Chapter
- Virginia’s Legal Elite; Virginia Business Magazine, 2006, 2008-2023
- Influential Women of Virginia Award; Virginia Lawyers Weekly, 2010
- Women of Distinction; YWCA of South Hampton Roads, 2008
- Phi Beta Kappa; Washington University
- Omicron Delta Kappa; Washington University
Associations
- American Bar Association; Labor and Employment Law Section
- Virginia Bar Association; Labor and Employment Law Section
- Norfolk-Portsmouth Bar Association
- Hampton Roads Society for Human Resource Management
- The Dwelling Place Ecumenical Family Shelter, Inc.; Board Member
- Jewish Community Center of Tidewater; Past President
- United Jewish Foundation of Tidewater; Women’s Cabinet
- United Jewish Federation of Tidewater; Board Member
- Cultural Alliance of Greater Hampton Roads; Board Member
Education
- Washington University; A.B., University Honors, 1981
- Georgetown University Law Center; J.D., cum laude, 1984
Press & Publications
- 55 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named Best Lawyers in America 2025, 7 Named “Lawyer of the Year,” and 13 Named “Ones to Watch”
- 53 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named Virginia Business Magazine’s “Legal Elite” 2023
- 54 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named Best Lawyers in America© 2024, 6 Named “Lawyer of the Year,” and 10 Named “Ones to Watch”
- 53 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named Virginia Business Magazine’s “Legal Elite” 2022
- 48 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named Best Lawyers In America© 2023, 5 Named “Lawyer of the Year” and 8 Named “Ones to Watch”
- 52 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named Virginia Business Magazine’s “Legal Elite” 2021
- 48 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named Best Lawyers in America© 2022, 4 Named “Lawyer of the Year” and 8 Named “Ones to Watch”
- 53 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named to Virginia Business Magazine’s “Legal Elite” 2020
- 46 Attorneys Named “Best Lawyers in America 2021”, 5 Named “Lawyer of the Year” and 7 Named “Ones to Watch”
- 48 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named Virginia Business Magazine’s “Legal Elite” 2019
- 45 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named Best Lawyers in America 2020 and 3 Named “Lawyer of the Year”
- 48 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named Virginia Business Magazine’s “Legal Elite” 2018
- 48 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named Virginia Business Magazine’s Legal Elite 2017
- 48 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named to Virginia Business Magazine’s Legal Elite 2016
- 44 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named Virginia Business Magazine’s Legal Elite 2015
- 45 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named to Virginia Business Magazine’s Legal Elite 2014
- 54 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named to Virginia Business Magazine’s Legal Elite 2013
- 55 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named to Virginia Business Magazine’s Legal Elite 2012
- 53 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named Virginia Business Magazine’s Legal Elite 2011
- 39 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named Virginia Business Magazine’s “Legal Elite” 2010
- Laura Geringer Gross Receives Influential Women of Virginia Award
- Who Uses Noncompete Agreements? It Runs the Gamut.