Ms. McClain is a litigator and negotiator focusing her practice on employment discrimination matters. Ms. McClain also advises clients regarding compliance with federal laws and provides solutions to clients regarding their healthcare and prescription drug costs. Ms. McClain has represented clients in the education, government contracting, retail and healthcare industries.
Ms. McClain represents and counsels clients in all aspects of employment law and has successfully represented management in the defense of age, race, gender, religion and disability discrimination cases in state and federal courts, and administrative charges before the EEOC and local agencies. Ms. McClain routinely conducts internal investigations of employment discrimination claims and has obtained satisfactory settlements of claims. Ms. McClain has trial experience, including serving as second-chair in a federal jury trial successfully defending a national university against allegations of sexual harassment, retaliation and breach of contract by a former visiting professor and serving on the trial team in a state-level jury trial defending a national retail pharmacy in a wrongful death claim. Ms. McClain has also managed appeals in both the federal appellate courts and the United States Supreme Court. Before joining Venable, Ms. McClain was a judicial clerk in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and practiced in the Washington, DC office of a large international law firm where she managed complex litigation discovery matters and conducted sensitive internal investigations.