LAURA SMOLOWE
Partner
Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP
The world’s most prominent companies, including Amgen, Facebook and Snap, look to Laura Smolowe to guide them through their thorniest legal matters with a creative, determined and steadfast hand—leading major trials and internal investigations and negotiating favorable resolutions in complex disputes.
At Munger, Tolles & Olson, Smolowe co-leads the Trade Secret and Employee Mobility Practice Group, co-chairs the Recruiting Committee, and is a member of the firm’s Management Committee. Her practice focuses on complex commercial litigation and trials, arbitrations, and counseling clients in a wide variety of matters involving trade secrets, privacy, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and fraud. An expert in her field, Smolowe publishes and speaks regularly, including co-authoring the chapter on trade secrets and restrictive covenants in multiple editions of the California Business Litigation handbook and numerous articles on related topics in legal journals, and appearing on panels at conferences around the country.
