Lauran is responsible for overall management of Hilsoft Notifications.  He consults extensively with clients on notice adequacy and innovative legal notice programs that are both efficient and informed by the many court-approved programs developed by Hilsoft Notifications over close to a decade.

Among recent engagements, Lauran managed the 2008 notice program for In Re Trans Union Privacy Litigation.  Possibly the largest class action in history, the In re Trans Union settlement included 190 million class members justifying a media effort spanning the internet, consumer magazines, newspapers, television and radio.  Other class action engagements involve companies such as Ford Motors, Chrysler, TJX, Certegy, AIG, Dominion Resource Services, CNA, Continental Tire, Wal-Mart, Carrier Corporation, Vivendi, Parmalat, ConAgra and Toyota.

Lauran has over a dozen years of consulting and management experience developing innovative marketing programs for nationally and internationally recognized brands such as National City, HSBC and Regions Bank along with affiliates of the American Automobile Association and Better Business Bureau.  Prior to joining Epiq Systems in 2005, Lauran was a Senior Vice President of National City Bank in Cleveland, Ohio.

Lauran’s education includes advanced study in political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Cornell University and the London School of Economics along with a Ford Foundation fellowship from the Social Science Research Council and American Council of Learned Societies.