Lauren Brice is the Senior Assistant Public Defender in the Office of the Public Defender for Arlington County and the City of Falls Church. Prior to the Arlington Office, she worked in the Office of the Public Defender for Fauquier and Rappahannock Counties. Since joining the office in 2015, Lauren has primarily worked in the Juvenile & Domestic Relations Court, representing children and adolescents charged in criminal court. Lauren also has a varied felony practice in both the General District and Circuit Courts.

Within the office, Lauren is the intern coordinator and helps organize and develop trainings for both interns and staff. She also serves as a Certification Trainer for the Indigent Defense Commission, training lawyers seeking certification to represent children in delinquency matters.

Within the community, Lauren also represents the Arlington Office in various working groups, including as a member for the Steering Committee for Restorative Arlington; Co-Chair of the Law Enforcement Subgroup of the Arlington Public Schools/School Resource Officer Work Group; and member of both the Juvenile Court’s Juvenile Justice Transformation Team and the Reducing Ethnic and racial Disparities (RED) Team.

Prior to becoming a public defender, Lauren clerked for the judges of the 17th Judicial Circuit in Arlington, Virginia. Lauren earned her JD from George Mason University School of Law, where she received the 2013 ALI-ABA Scholarship & Leadership Award, and her B.S. in Public Administration and Justice Studies from James Madison University.