Lauren Bogart joined the CaringMatters Board of Directors in 2026. A lifelong Montgomery County resident, Lauren is an estate planning attorney with West & Feinberg, P.C. in Bethesda.

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Lauren brings both professional expertise and personal experience to her role on the Board. After losing her husband to a brain tumor while their three children were still very young, she gained a profound understanding of the challenges faced by individuals and families coping with serious illness, caregiving, loss, and grief. As both a caregiver and a grieving parent, she navigated her husband's illness and end-of-life journey while supporting her children through their own grief experiences.

 

Inspired by these experiences, Lauren has published writings including “What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been” (Knowing Pains, Wingspan Press, 2009); “Heaven Sent?” (Washingtonian Magazine, May 2010); and a workbook for young children to process their feelings during the COVID-19 pandemic, “Memories of a Weird Year” (self published, 2021).

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Lauren later worked in development for the National Brain Tumor Society and served as a hospice volunteer with JSSA. She is also the immediate past President of the Temple Beth Ami Board of Directors and continues to serve on its Board.

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Lauren began her legal career at Crowell & Moring in Washington, D.C., where she practiced health care, tax, and government contracts law. She later worked for a Washington, D.C. area firm specializing in insurance law before focusing her practice on estate planning.

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She earned her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1992 and her B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1989.