Legal help for employment concerns at your company

Kulpa Law offers approachable, responsive, and proactive legal solutions to companies in need of California or Texas employment advice, investigations into workplace concerns, and employee and manager training. We're here to help you avoid costly legal disputes and make complex employment matters clear and manageable.

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Our Services

Offering expert counsel in preventing and responding to employment issues

California & Texas Employment Advice

Navigating the complex landscape of modern employment law requires experienced and strategic guidance. Kulpa Law provides comprehensive counsel to help employers ensure compliance with federal and state laws and regulations and mitigate legal risk. Kulpa Law frequently advises employers on disability accommodations and leave management, performance management, employee and executive separations, reductions in force, and employment-related documents (offer letters, employment agreements, restrictive covenant agreements, separation agreements, arbitration agreements, and employee handbooks).

Workplace Investigations

When sensitive allegations of misconduct arise, a prompt, impartial, and thorough workplace investigation is essential to protect your organization. Kulpa Law discreetly handles the fact-finding process, delivering clear and objective findings that enable you to take decisive and defensible action.

Workplace Training

Empower your team and foster a respectful, productive work environment with Kulpa Law's customized workplace training programs. We offer engaging in-person and virtual sessions on crucial topics like discrimination and harassment prevention, performance management, and conducting internal investigations, which are tailored to equip your unique workforce with essential knowledge and skills.

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About us

Get to know our founder, Lauren M. Kulpa.

Experienced

Before starting her own practice, Lauren spent over a decade at Amlaw 50 firms, where she specialized in employment law, with a particular emphasis on sensitive workplace investigations involving C-Suite and other high-level employees. While there, Lauren developed a reputation for providing practical user-friendly guidance tailored to her clients' business needs.

Lauren has helped companies from start-ups to Fortune 500s across a wide range of industries, including technology, retail, defense contractors, private equity, nonprofit, healthcare, sports, and entertainment. Lauren has extensive experience with defending employers against single-plaintiff, class-action, and collective-action matters involving harassment, discrimination, and wage-and-hour violations, as well as bringing and defending against claims for violations of noncompete and confidentiality agreements and trade secret misappropriation. At Kulpa Law, Lauren uses her real-world litigation experience to advise clients on how to prevent employment litigation and put themselves in advantageous positions should litigation arise.  

On the investigation front, Lauren has handled investigations involving allegations of sexual harassment and assault, bullying and abusive behavior, discrimination, hostile work environment, retaliation, and failure to investigate. These investigations have involved C-Suite and high-level employees as well as high profile clients. As an investigator, Lauren strives to ensure that all parties involved (from the reporter to the subject, to the witnesses) feel that they have had the opportunity to be heard while being treated with dignity and respect. Lauren has also trained in using a trauma-informed approach when handling investigations involving allegations of sexual harassment and assault.

Recognized

Chambers Ranked in USA 2025 RecognitionSuper Lawyers Rising Star RecognitionBest Lawyers Recognition

Lauren is recognized for her expertise by several legal directories:

Credentialed

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  • Licensed to practice law in California & Texas
  • Clerked for Hon. W. Keith Watkins, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, 2011-2012
  • Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, J.D., summa cum laude, Order of the Coif, 2011; Production Editor, Loyola Law Review; Sayre Macneil Scholar; St. Thomas More Honor Society
  • Texas A&M University, B.A., Chemistry, cum laude, 2008; Aggie Player; Aggie Fish Club (member and counselor); Fish Camp (counselor & co-chair)

Active

Beyond her legal practice, Kulpa is active in her community.

She is a member of the Dallas Bar Association Labor & Employment and Solo and Small Firm sections and was selected for the Dallas Bar Association’s WE LEAD: Women Empowered to Lead in the Legal Profession 2021 cohort. Lauren served as a Dallas CASA volunteer from 2016-2024 and on the Meals on Wheels of Tarrant County Board of Directors from 2018 - 2021. Lauren also presented on labor and employment issues for the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program from 2015-2025.

You may also find Lauren on the stage from time to time in productions put on by the Fleetwood Project.

Lauren is committed to helping you with understanding & expertise.

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