Lauren Menkes is a transactional entertainment attorney with over 30 years experience spanning all aspects of scripted, unscripted, live action and animated television/streaming, motion picture, literary and podcast formats. At Boyarski Fritz LLP, Lauren represents authors, screenwriters, public speakers, journalists, directors, producers, actors/reality talent, models, graphic designers, literary agents and celebrity estates. Lauren diligently guides her clients from the development through distribution stages to protect their intellectual property and brand status.
Since May 2017, Lauren has worked remotely from Bethesda, Maryland as Senior Counsel for Boyarski Fritz LLP (an entertainment, media and intellectual property law firm with offices in New York City and Los Angeles). She had previously worked several years for Wise Entertainment Law in Cabin John, Maryland.
Before private practice on the east coast, Lauren spent two decades in Los Angeles as an in-house legal and business affairs executive for major entertainment companies such as United Talent Agency, Comedy Central, Walt Disney Television and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
Lauren is an active member of the New York and Maryland Bars and an inactive member of the California and District of Columbia Bars. Lauren graduated magna cum laude with an A.B. degree from Duke University and received her J.D. degree from Emory University School of Law.
Lauren has been a Board Member of Women in Film & Video since June 2017. She is also a Board Member of DukeDC representing Duke Entertainment Media & Arts Network (DEMAN). Lauren moderates Career Conversations for DukeDC with esteemed Duke alumni in the DMV area as well as speaks to students and alumni at Duke’s annual DEMAN Weekend.