Lauren called to the bar in 1996 and took silk in 2016. She is ranked in Chambers UK and The Legal 500 for Clinical Negligence. She has vast experience in catastrophic injury claims and appears regularly in court. She has conducted many complex Fatal Accident Inquiries into hospital deaths. She is a CEDR certified mediator. She is the lead for clinical negligence for PEOPIL a not for profit European organisation of lawyers.

She was part of the legal team for the claimant in the landmark case of Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board and presented the first argument for the claimant in the Appeal Court in Scotland. In 2009 she was one of two Counsel appointed by the Scottish Government to lead the Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry into the outbreak of C difficile at the hospital. She was also invited to participate in the review panel led by Professor Sheila McLean into the introduction of no fault compensation in Scotland.

For over 20 years she has lectured extensively to lawyers and doctors on clinical negligence and taught consent and ethics to undergraduate dental and medical students. She teaches doctors on court craft and writing reports in conjunction with Inspire Medilaw a provider of first class conferences for lawyers and doctors.

Since 1995 she has been the contributing editor on clinical negligence to the Reparation Bulletin in Scotland. She contributed the chapter on Medical Law and Human Rights to the main Scottish textbook on Human Rights. She has written a book on the law on consent post Montgomery published by Law Brief Publishing and is also available on amazon with authors proceeds going to children with special needs. She has a legal blog  https://laurensutherlandqc-lawandethics.com/general/welcome/