Lauren Campisi Q&A Featured in the 20th Anniversary Edition of Louisiana Super Lawyers Magazine

A: “I was always interested in becoming a lawyer, not because I really understood what the practice entailed, but because I respected the profession. I studied economics and political science in college and always had an interest in business and finance, and this became a nice intersection of the financial market and the law.”

A: “I was scheduled to begin working at my first law firm the week before Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. When I finally did start a few weeks later, basically, the practice chose me. I did not intentionally choose consumer finance as an area of focus. It was just reflective of the needs of the firm at the time.”

A: “Beginning in 2008, we navigated with our clients the major economic shocks and governmental reaction to those [Great Recession] changes—the advent of the Dodd-Frank Act, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, growth of state regulators, and a whole host of new laws and regulations. Those economic and legal changes have also completely changed the landscape of consumer financial services in my practice.”

A: “I litigated for the first six years or so of my practice. We did have a case that we won at the trial court level. We won at the appellate court level, and it was ultimately appealed up to the United States Supreme Court, and we were able to win there as well. But what I’m most proud of are all the different ways that we’ve helped our clients create products, grow, manage through regulatory pressure, and defend enforcement overreach.”

A: “With continued innovation and adoption of things like artificial intelligence, there are pressures and expectations for lawyers to have all the answers very quickly. And that sometimes is not realistic or feasible.”

A: “There are benefits to technology that help lawyers create more value for clients and innovate alongside them. In addition, the talent and collaboration are always exciting and refreshing across the industry.”