Ian McLin is a commercial litigator with a focus on insurance coverage and complex business disputes. Ian represents insurers in a wide spectrum of coverage-related disputes, including those concerning general liability, pollution liability, professional liability, cyber, kidnap and ransom, educators’ legal liability, product recall, and business interruption coverages. Ian’s coverage practice includes representing risk retention groups, environmental liability insurers, and other specialty carriers, including in multi-district litigation matters.
In addition to his insurance coverage practice, Ian represents clients in a variety of business torts and contract disputes across industries. He has experience handling complex commercial litigation, from pre-dispute resolution through trial, in both federal and state courts, as well as in arbitration and other alternative dispute resolution forums. Ian also has substantial experience in the Eastern District of Virginia’s “rocket docket” and in circuit courts across the Commonwealth.
Civil Litigation
- Represented a company and owner in a multi-party contract and tort dispute in Virginia state court.
- Advised a multi-national publicly traded company regarding compliance with state and local lobbying and public ethics statutes
- Advised a manufacturer in a successful application to exclude manufacturer’s product from U.S.-China tariffs
- Represented a startup company in a federal court action brought by a large competitor alleging intellectual property misappropriation
- District of Columbia
- Virginia
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Degrees
- J.D., cum laude, William & Mary Law School, 2017
- William & Mary Business Law Review
- B.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2014