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. Amy has also prevented the publication of misleading stories and obtained retractions, corrections, clarifications, and public apologies from Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, the Associated Press, VICE Media, The Daily Mail, Gizmodo, Architectural Record, and countless other publications.

Representative Matters

  • Kavanaugh v. Klein: Represented a movie producer in defamation litigation against a notorious YouTuber. Amy successfully persuaded the Court to reject Defendants’ efforts to dismiss the litigation pursuant to the California anti-SLAPP statute. She then successfully defended the favorable ruling on appeal.

  • Member of trial team that obtained the second largest defamation jury verdict in D.C. history, in a case that concerned a P.I. concocting fake allegations that an international financier was a Russian plant.

  • Defeated a motion under Pennsylvania’s new anti-SLAPP statute, which established the state law’s inapplicability in federal court.

  • SeeDevice v. KBS: Obtained partial denial of California anti-SLAPP Motion in California federal court.  

  • Defeated motion for judgment on the pleadings brought by a so-called investigative YouTuber, who had argued that he was merely sharing non-actionable opinions when he accused the plaintiff of running a “scam” in connection with a crypto-currency and NFT offering.

  • 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.

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

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

Publications & Academia

  • 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).

  • Adjunct Professor, The William & Mary Law School (Fall 2023): Defamation and Disinformation. 

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