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Founded in 2019, the L.L. Dunn Law Firm provides representation for victims and survivors of sexual harassment and violence within campus, criminal and civil systems as well as campus safety whistleblowers.
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Founding Partner
Laura L. Dunn, J.D., is a nationally-recognized victims’ rights attorney and social entrepreneur who has been featured in Forbes, Buzzfeed, National Law Journal, and many more. Dunn is the Founding Partner of the L.L. Dunn Law Firm, as well as a published legal scholar, an adjunct at Maryland Law, appointed member to the American Bar Association’s Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence and Criminal Justice Section Task Force on College Due Process, and a liaison to the American Law Institute’s Model Penal Code on Sexual Assault and Student Sexual Misconduct Project. Dunn is also an accomplished litigator, who helped win the first-ever recognition of a federal victim-advocate privilege, as well as an expert witness and consultant working on various campus-based gender violence lawsuits across the country.
While a student at Maryland Law, Dunn contributed to Obama-era Title IX guidance from the U.S. Department of Education and served on its 2014 VAWA rulemaking committee to develop implementing regulations for the Clery Act, which she had worked with Congress to amend through Section 304 of the 2013 Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act ("VAWA"). For this advocacy, Dunn has been publicly recognized by Vice President Joe Biden and former Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy. Upon graduation, Dunn founded the national nonprofit, SurvJustice and received a 2015 Echoing Green Global Fellowship, the 2016 Benjamin Cardin Public Service Award, the 2017 Special Courage Award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office for Victims of Crime, and a 2018 TED Fellowship, along with other honors and recognitions over the years for her work with victims of sexual assault.
As a Title IX and Clery Act expert, Dunn has trained countless campus community members, advocates and attorneys through prominent institutions and organizations, such as the Federal Bar Association, the National Association of Women Judges, the College Republican National Committee, the Democratic Attorneys General Association, the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics, Harvard Law, Stanford University, the Wisconsin Department of Justice, the Texas Municipal Police Association, the Arkansas Bar Association, the National Association of Victim Rights Attorneys, and many more.
While a student at Maryland Law, Dunn contributed to Obama-era Title IX guidance from the U.S. Department of Education and served on its 2014 VAWA rulemaking committee to develop implementing regulations for the Clery Act, which she had worked with Congress to amend through Section 304 of the 2013 Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act ("VAWA"). For this advocacy, Dunn has been publicly recognized by Vice President Joe Biden and former Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy. Upon graduation, Dunn founded the national nonprofit, SurvJustice and received a 2015 Echoing Green Global Fellowship, the 2016 Benjamin Cardin Public Service Award, the 2017 Special Courage Award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office for Victims of Crime, and a 2018 TED Fellowship, along with other honors and recognitions over the years for her work with victims of sexual assault.
As a Title IX and Clery Act expert, Dunn has trained countless campus community members, advocates and attorneys through prominent institutions and organizations, such as the Federal Bar Association, the National Association of Women Judges, the College Republican National Committee, the Democratic Attorneys General Association, the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics, Harvard Law, Stanford University, the Wisconsin Department of Justice, the Texas Municipal Police Association, the Arkansas Bar Association, the National Association of Victim Rights Attorneys, and many more.
