Lawrence McDonough is the managing attorney for the Legal Aid Society of Minneapolis Housing Unit. A 1983 cum laude graduate of William Mitchell, McDonough teaches evidence at Mitchell, co-teaches Poverty Law with Monica Bogucki at the University of Minnesota Law School and the University of St. Thomas School of Law, and created and teaches the Housing Law Clinic at the University of Minnesota Law School.

His article "Still Crazy After All These Years: Landlords and Tenants and the Law of Torts" is in 33 William Mitchell Law Review 427 (2006).