About Laura Eichhorn
Laura Eichhorn Kurpad built her legal education at two Ivy League institutions. She earned a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University in 1998 and completed her Juris Doctor at Harvard Law School in 2007. Those years set the stage for a career that moves between health law, disability rights and federal regulatory work.
Her early legal work was hands-on. In 2002 she worked as a paralegal at Disability Rights Advocates, assisting on matters affecting access and services for people with disabilities. After law school she took an EJA/Kaufmann Fellowship in 2007 with LegalHealth, the medical-legal partnership of the New York Legal Assistance Group. That placement exposed her to the intersection of clinical care and legal remedies.
Kurpad then served as a law clerk in 2009 for a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. The clerkship was followed by a move into federal service. In 2010 she joined the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as Associate Chief Counsel. Her work at the agency has involved advising on legal issues that affect public health regulation and enforcement.
She is admitted to practice in both California and New York. Those credentials reflect a practice that crosses geographic and institutional lines. Over time she has moved between advocacy settings, courtroom work and agency counsel roles. Each setting contributed different skills: client intake and advocacy at the legal services level, case management and legal research during the clerkship, and regulatory analysis at the agency.
Throughout her career Kurpad has shown an interest in matters where health policy and the law overlap. Her background includes disability rights and medical-legal partnerships as well as federal regulatory practice at the FDA. That mix informs how she approaches questions about compliance, agency authority and the practical effect of regulatory decisions on patients and providers.
She maintains professional memberships that reflect ongoing engagement with the legal community. Her work has stayed centered on the legal challenges that arise in health and regulatory contexts. She practices at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, handling legal matters related to regulation and public health.
