Lauren S. Kadish
Biography
Lauren is a Member in the firm’s Norfolk office and a member of the Health Care, Litigation, and Data Privacy and Security Practice Groups, and the Senior Housing and Care Team. She represents clients, including health systems, hospitals, practices, long-term care facilities, and individual health care providers, in all aspects of health care litigation matters, including defense of medical malpractice and wrongful death actions as well as disciplinary actions by state licensing boards. Lauren also provides guidance on various health care decision-making matters, including HIPAA breach prevention and compliance, peer review and quality assurance programs, and counsel to hospitals regarding staff matters, quality assurance, EMTALA, HIPAA, Medicare, healthcare decisions and other regulatory and risk management issues. Lauren is Chair of the Associates Committee and serves on the firm’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee.
Representative Matters
- Represented clients, including health systems, hospitals, practices, long-term care facilities, and individual health care providers, in all aspects of litigation matters in both state and federal court
- Defended health care professionals when their depositions are requested as treating providers
- Counseled health systems, hospitals, nursing homes, physicians and other health care professionals on issues of risk management and regulatory compliance
- Advised healthcare providers of all types on HIPAA breach prevention and compliance
- Counseled a major hospital system through re-drafting of consent forms for regulatory compliance and other legal concerns
- Developed peer review and quality assurance programs for physician practices
- Counseled numerous hospitals on medical staff matters, quality assurance, EMTALA, HIPAA, healthcare decisions and other regulatory and risk management issues
Recognition & Honors
- NextGen Award; CoVaBIZ Magazine, 2023
- Top Lawyers; CoVaBIZ Magazine, 2023-2024
- Norfolk Health Care Law; Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch, 2021-2025
- Top 40 Under 40; Inside Business, 2022
- Virginia Super Lawyers Rising Stars, Personal Injury – Medical Malpractice: Defense, 2018-2020
- California Super Lawyers Rising Stars, 2016-2018
Associations
- Regent University School of Law; Adjunct Professor, 2019 – present
- Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys (VADA); Vice Chair of Medical Malpractice Section (2019 – present)
- CHIP of South Hampton Roads; Board of Directors, 2018 – present
- Virginia Opera Association; Hampton Roads Board of Governors, 2019 – present
- I’Anson-Hoffman American Inn of Court, 2018 – present
- Virginia Bar Association; Health Care Section, 2018 – present
- Defense Research Institute; 2018 – present
- Association of Southern California Defense Counsel (ASCDC); Los Angeles Board Member, Young Lawyers Committee Chair, 2015-2017
Education
- The Catholic University of America; B.A., B.M., 2005
- Pepperdine University School of Law; J.D., 2010
Press & Publications
- 55 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named Best Lawyers in America 2025, 7 Named “Lawyer of the Year,” and 13 Named “Ones to Watch”
- 36 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named as Top Lawyers 2024 in CoVaBIZ Magazine
- CoVaBIZ NextGen 2023 Outstanding Young Professionals: Lauren Kadish, Kaufman & Canoles
- 54 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named Best Lawyers in America© 2024, 6 Named “Lawyer of the Year,” and 10 Named “Ones to Watch”
- 44 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named as Top Lawyers 2023 in CoVaBIZ Magazine
- Inside Business 2022 Top Forty Under 40: Lauren Kadish, Kaufman & Canoles
- 48 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named Best Lawyers In America© 2023, 5 Named “Lawyer of the Year” and 8 Named “Ones to Watch”
- Clark J. Belote, Lauren S. Kadish, Randy C. Sparks Jr., and Benjamin A. Wills Elected Members at Kaufman & Canoles
- 48 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named Best Lawyers in America© 2022, 4 Named “Lawyer of the Year” and 8 Named “Ones to Watch”
- 46 Attorneys Named “Best Lawyers in America 2021”, 5 Named “Lawyer of the Year” and 7 Named “Ones to Watch”
- 18 Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys Named as Super Lawyers 2020 and 4 Named As Rising Stars 2020
- Healthcare Client Alert – CMS Issues a Series of Updated Guidance Documents
- Kaufman & Canoles Attorneys: 18 Named as Super Lawyers & 6 Named as Virginia Rising Stars in Virginia Super Lawyers & Rising Stars 2019
- Lauren S. Kadish Joins Kaufman & Canoles