Laura Lapidus, Esq.

Risk Control Director, Management Liability and Financial Institutions
CNA

Laura Lapidus, Esq., is a risk control director for CNA, managing the development and delivery of employment practices liability (EPL) and management liability risk control products and services. She serves as the co-chair of AVID (Advocacy for Visible and Invisible Disabilities), one of CNA’s Employee Resource Groups (ERGs). She is also a member of Associated Builders and Contractor’s (ABC’s) Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Committee and leads ABC’s Disability Diversity Resource Group (DRG).

Laura has more than 30 years of experience in employment law. She has taught dozens of CNA’s School of Risk Control Excellence (SORCE) courses and webinars, and has written various articles on employment practices and other matters. Prior to CNA, Laura spent ten years managing EPL and management liability claims for other carriers. She also served as in-house employment counsel for Sbarro, Inc., a restaurant company, and as in-house employment counsel for the Internal Revenue Service, and practiced at a litigation boutique, focusing on employment law and commercial litigation.

Laura graduated from Albany Law School of Union University and Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She is admitted to practice in New York, and is a member of PLUS and SHRM. Laura is a member of the ADA Trainer Leadership Network, an initiative of the ADA National Network, coordinated by the Northeast ADA Center at Cornell University.