Professional Bio
Kayla Strauss is committed to providing clients with thoughtful and pragmatic solutions to complex legal issues. Her practice focuses on litigation and employment issues through a creative lens.
While a member of the Firm’s Pro Bono Rotation, Kayla focused on a holistic range of issues including assisting asylum seekers fleeing Afghanistan, efforts toward the Native American Voting Rights Act, advocacy for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act implementation in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, wrongful convictions, modifications of supervised release, and challenges to death penalty sentencing.
Within the Employment Practice, Kayla assists private and public companies by providing support regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, antidiscrimination matters, non-competition agreements, and wage and hour law.
Kayla rejoined Hogan Lovells after serving as a summer associate in 2020. While in law school, Kayla was a fierce advocate for human and civil rights. She was the Executive Submissions and Solicitations Editor for the Howard Human and Civil Rights Law Review; the lead organizer for the Sixth Annual C. Clyde Ferguson Symposium, The Promise & Perils of Technology: Legal Strategies to Protect Communities of Color; and she was named a 2020 Ms. JD Fellow based on her academic performance, leadership, and dedication to advancing the status of women in the legal profession.
She has interned for Special Referee Sue Ann Hoahng in the New York State Supreme Court and was a summer intern in South Africa for one of Africa’s top international law firms. Kayla was also an Associate at the World Bank Group Administrative Tribunal working alongside some of the world’s leading legal scholars to resolve conflict through alternative dispute resolution mechanisms in an international organization.
Kayla is also an Adjunct Professor for the Howard University School of Law World Bank Externship Program.
