Lauren J. Kracht is an Associate with Marks, O’Neill, O’Brien, Doherty & Kelly, P.C. She is admitted to practice in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Lauren graduated cum laude from Temple University with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice and academic distinctions in philosophy and political science. As an undergraduate, she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious academic honor society recognizing top scholars in the liberal arts and sciences.

Lauren earned her J.D. from Temple University’s Beasley School of Law, where she attended as a part-time evening student while working as a paralegal at a defense litigation firm (a firm that she would later rejoin as an associate attorney). While in law school, Lauren received a Certificate from Beasley’s renowned Trial Advocacy Program and served as a teaching assistant in multiple Trial Advocacy courses. She also interned with the Temple Legal Aid Office, the Philadelphia Law Department, the Pennsylvania Innocence Project, and volunteered her weekends assisting low-income communities through the process of filing their tax returns as a member of the IRS Tax Assistance Program.

Following law school, Lauren moved on to clerk for the Honorable Diana L. Anhalt in the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania. Lauren then returned to defense litigation as an associate at a regional defense litigation firm, handling general liability matters and collaborating with the workers’ compensation and medical malpractice teams.

Most recently, Lauren practiced law at a national firm which concentrated in products-liability, toxic-tort litigation, and warranty defense, including lemon-law matters for national and international auto/motorcycle manufacturers.

Since joining Marks O’Neill, Lauren has focused her practice on casualty, transportation/trucking, toxic tort/mass tort/environmental and products liability.

Outside of work, Lauren enjoys cooking, gardening, and tackling “passion projects.” She loves the color pink and adores animals. She has five cats, two named “Elle” and “Woods” (a nod to her favorite movie, Legally Blonde). Community involvement is a top priority for Lauren. She was involved in Philadelphia’s Internal Revenue Service’s Volunteer-Income-Tax-Assistance Clinic (“VITA”) where she would dedicate her weekends to assisting families within Philadelphia’s low-income communities with navigating the process of filing their tax returns.