Lauryn P. Gouldin joined Wachtell Lipton’s litigation department in 2001. She received her A.B. degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and her J.D., magna cum laude, from New York University School of Law, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif, an Executive Articles Editor of the Annual Survey of American Law, a Florence Allen Scholar and the recipient of the Ann Petluck Poses Memorial Prize for outstanding work in clinical course. Ms. Gouldin clerked for the Honorable Leonard B. Sand of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York before coming to Wachtell Lipton, and later clerked with the Honorable Chester J. Straub of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 2003 to 2004.

Ms. Gouldin is admitted to practice in the State of New York, the Southern District of New York and the United States Supreme Court. She is a member of the Federal Bar Council Inn of Court and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.