Laura Stein returned to The Clorox Company in 2005, and serves as senior vice president – general counsel of The Clorox Company with responsibility for the company's worldwide legal, ethics and compliance, corporate secretary, corporate communications, crisis management, risk management and internal audit matters. Previously, Ms. Stein was senior vice president – general counsel of the H.J. Heinz Company, a member of the Heinz senior management committee, a director of the H.J. Heinz Company Foundation and president of the H.J. Heinz women’s group, among other responsibilities. Prior to joining Heinz, Ms. Stein was assistant general counsel – regulatory affairs of Clorox for eight years, and before that was a corporate lawyer with Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco and Hong Kong.

Ms. Stein is a director of Franklin Resources, Inc. (a global investment organization known as Franklin Templeton Investments), and was previously a director of Nash Finch Company. She is chair of the nominating committee and the international committee and is also the immediate past chair of the board of the Association of Corporate Counsel. Ms. Stein is chair of the ABA Asia Rule of Law Initiative and co-chair of the Corporate Pro Bono Advisory Board. She is on the board of Equal Justice Works. She is a member of the American Law Institute, the Association of General Counsel, the ABA International Law Section Council and the ABA Rule of Law Initiative Board. Ms. Stein participates in the Diversity and Flexibility Connection of the Project for Attorney Retention. Ms. Stein previously served on the advisory boards of ABA DirectWomen, the ABA Center for Human Rights, and the LexMundi Foundation and on the State Bar of California Task Force on Lawyer Support for Legal Services. Previously, she was also chair of the ABA Commission on Domestic Violence, vice-chair of the East Bay Community Law Center, co-chair of the General Counsel Committee of the American Bar Association, and a director of Global Education Partnership and of the Pittsburgh Ballet Theater.

Ms. Stein has received the Legal Momentum Women of Achievement Award, the Sandra Day O’Connor Board Excellence Award and the Ted Craig Humanitarian Award. The National Law Journal has named Ms. Stein as one of the 20 most influential general counsel in America. The Harvard Law Bulletin has highlighted Ms. Stein as one of 50 alumnae who “have used their law degree to take them to extraordinary places.” She has been named one of the Bay Area’s Most Influential Women in Business by the San Francisco Business Times and was previously named one of Pennsylvania’s Best Women in Business by Pennsylvania’s Governor. Ms. Stein is multilingual and has lived in China and Italy.

Ms. Stein received her J.D. from Harvard Law School, and is a graduate of Dartmouth College where she earned an undergraduate and master’s degrees. She is married and has two children.