Lauren Reeder McClurg

Lauren McClurg is an associate in King & Spalding’s Tort Practice.  Her practice focuses on the defense of pharmaceutical product liability litigation and other mass tort actions. Ms. McClurg has experience in individual cases, class actions, and multidistrict litigation.

Representative Experience

• Member of a King & Spalding team serving as national coordinating counsel and trial counsel in product liability litigation involving GlaxoSmithKline’s antidepressant Paxil®, including in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Mass Tort Program.  Experience includes briefing to defeat class certification, coordinating offensive and defensive discovery in dockets of cases, conducting depositions, briefing motions for summary judgment and  motions in limine, conducting jury research, and all aspects of trial preparation.
  
  
• Successfully briefing and arguing an appeal in the D.C. Circuit involving the applicability of federal sovereign immunity to subpoenas for depositions of federal employees in state court civil litigation.
  
  
• Participating in various aspects of trial and pre-trial preparation in a mass tort action against a chemical manufacturer involving health and environmental claims, including interviewing fact witnesses, drafting discovery, working with expert witnesses in the fields of medicine and epidemiology and preparing those witnesses for depositions and trial, assisting in the preparation of technically-oriented fact witnesses for depositions and trial, and developing cross-examination of plaintiffs’ experts. 
  
  
• Defending the organization that oversees the U.S. voluntary consensus-based standards system in mass tort litigation involving radiofrequency radiation emissions from wireless handheld telephones.
  
  
• Assessing expert witnesses for potential Daubert challenges in chemical and pharmaceutical litigation or in connection with the experts’ proposed service on agency advisory panels. 
  
  
• Appearing on an amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Court of the United States in support of the petition for a writ of certiorari in Nokia, Inc., et. al. v. Garret Naquin, et al. 
  
  
• Reviewing agency records to develop regulatory and technical defenses in litigation involving occupational and environmental exposure to chemicals. 
  
  
• Represented a non-profit organization and several individuals with mental illness in civil rights litigation concerning the conditions and treatment at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in the District of Columbia.  Ms. McClurg’s pro bono work on this matter included developing litigation strategy, briefing dispositive motions, conducting depositions, overseeing discovery, and day-to-day management of the case.  

Awards & Recognition

• King & Spalding Pro Bono Committee
  
  
• King & Spalding Hiring Committee
  
  
• Order of the Coif
  
  
• Winner & Best Final Round Speaker, Irving R. Kaufman Memorial Securities Law Moot Court Competition
  
  
• Emory National Moot Court Team