Amy McCann Roller has extensive experience in all phases of litigation, including discovery, motions practice, and trial.

Amy McCann Roller

Senior Associate

Amy maintains a robust reputation-management practice that focuses on litigating high-stakes defamation cases and business torts, as well as helping prominent clients manage crises. She has extensive experience in all phases of litigation, including discovery, motions practice, and trial. Before entering private practice, Amy served as law clerk to The Hon. Arenda L. Wright Allen of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia—an experience that informs Amy’s approach to advocating before judges nationwide and enhances her ability to leverage procedural rules to wrest incriminating documents from the grips of intransigent defendants. Amy has also prevented the publication of misleading stories and obtained retractions, corrections, clarifications, and public apologies from Rolling Stone, the Associated Press, VICE Media, The Daily Mail, Gizmodo, Architectural Record, and countless other publications.

Representative Matters

  • Kytch, Inc. v. McDonald’s: Represents a start-up tech company in $900 million trade libel litigation against McDonald’s and McFlurry Machine maker Taylor Company.  

  • Eshelman v. Puma Biotechnology: Member of trial team that obtained a $16 million award for Dr. Eshelman, a venture capitalist who, during a proxy contest, was falsely accused of fraud.

  • Kavanaugh v. Klein: Represented a movie producer in defamation litigation against a notorious podcaster. Amy successfully persuaded the Court to reject Defendants’ efforts to dismiss the litigation and to recover their attorneys’ fees pursuant to the California anti-SLAPP statute.

  • Represented a non-profit suffering from serial harassment and defamation by a disgruntled ex-employee; successfully obtained cessation of the problematic conduct.

Publications

From Ship-to-Shore Telegraphs to Wi-Fi Packets: Using Section 705(a) to Protect Wireless Communications, 68 Federal Communications Law Journal 525 (2016), republished in The Computer & Internet Lawyer (July 2017).

Academia

Amy currently serves as an adjunct professor at The William & Mary Law School, teaching a course on defamation and disinformation, alongside Meier Watkins founding partner Daniel Watkins.

Education

  • The George Washington University School of Law, J.D., 2016

  • Bucknell University, B.A. in Art History, 2010

Experience

  • Associate, Clare Locke LLP, 2021-2023

  • Associate, Kotchen & Low LLP, 2018-2021

  • Law Clerk, The Hon. Arenda L. Wright Allen, 2017

Admissions

  • District of Columbia

  • United States District Court for the District of Columbia