Attorney Lauren Lemonious Joins Bodman PLC
05/01/19
Bodman PLC is pleased to announce that Lauren M. Lemonious has joined the firm as an associate attorney.
Lemonious is a member of Bodman’s Banking Practice Group and is based in the firm’s Detroit office. She focuses her practice on representing financial institutions in connection with commercial loan originations.
Lemonious has varied legal experience gained both in private practice and as in-house counsel. Before joining Bodman, she worked with a major real estate investment, development and management company where she documented real estate transactions, conducted market research, and was active in investor relations. Prior to that, she was an associate in the Public Finance Department in the Philadelphia office of a large national law firm where she was involved in all aspects of public finance transactions for municipal utilities and educational institutions.
She is a graduate of Harvard Law School, where she was active with a number of organizations, including the Black Law Students Association, the Harvard Women’s Law Association, the Transactional Law Clinic, and the TLC Community Enterprise Project, among others. She served as editor of the Harvard Journal on Racial and Ethnic Justice.
She served internships with Michigan Legal Services in Detroit and with the New York Law Department in Queens, New York. She also served as an intern to Hon. Carolyn E. Wade of the Civil Court for the City of New York.
Lemonious holds an undergraduate degree in Urban Studies and Public Policy from Dillard University where she was honored as her class valedictorian. She has volunteered as a mentor and literacy coach with various programs that support educational opportunities for elementary and high school students. She is Michigan co-chair of the Harvard Law School Association Women’s Alliance Network.
She is a member of the State Bar of Michigan, the State Bar of Pennsylvania, the Wolverine Bar Association, and the Federal Bar Association-Eastern District of Michigan Chapter.