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Amy Miller
Partner 
2001 K Street N.W
amiller@mcguirewoods.comSuite 400 Washington, DC 20006-1040 F: 202.828.2963
1750 Tysons Boulevard
Suite 1800 McLean, Virginia 22102-4215 F: 703.712.5193    |
Ms. Miller is a litigator and counselor who combines responsive, practical advice with effective litigation strategies to obtain optimum results for clients. She focuses her practice on business litigation, business torts, contractual disputes, employment law, and appellate procedure. When problems evolve into lawsuits, she represents clients in federal and state courts in Virginia, the District of Columbia, Maryland, and other venues across the country. She also represents clients in arbitrations and administrative agency proceedings.
Outside of the courtroom, Ms. Miller advises clients on a broad range of business issues, including corporate governance, unfair competition laws and strategies, and all aspects of employee relations and human resources. She has extensive experience with workplace investigations, developing policies and procedures, and litigation risk avoidance. Prior to law school, she worked for several years in the areas of human resources and public policy. She also earned a master's degree in public administration, with emphasis in human resources.
- Litigated and resolved a complex, intra-corporate dispute involving arbitration proceedings, a separate suit in state court seeking to enforce a director's rights, and an internal board investigation into alleged director misconduct.
- Obtained federal court jury verdict in a race discrimination suit on behalf of a Fortune 500 company, and defended the verdict at the appellate level.
- Litigated and resolved a major unfair competition suit in state court between two construction companies involving alleged misappropriation of trade secrets, conspiracy, breach of fiduciary duty of loyalty, and other business torts.
- Defended and resolved class and collective action disputes, including defeating motions for class certification, involving claims under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, Employee Retirement Income System Act, and other employment statutes.
- Obtained favorable arbitrator award in a traditional labor dispute involving drug testing practices on behalf of Fortune 100 company.
- Oversaw large team of attorneys conducting internal inquiry into a major corporation's accounting and other fiduciary issues.
- Labor & Employment
- Business & Securities Litigation
- Appellate
- Class Action Litigation
- Consumer Financial Services Litigation
- Chair, Women's Leadership Forum, Washington, D.C. Office
- Appellate Steering Committee
- Named a Virginia Super Lawyer "Rising Star," Law & Politics Magazine, 2008
- Named One of Washington, D.C.'s Top Civil Defense Lawyers, Washingtonian Magazine, 2004
- "Washington, D.C. Publishes Proposed Sick and Safe Leave Regulations," WorkCite, 2009
- "Washington, D.C. Passes Law Making Paid Leave Mandatory," WorkCite, 2008
- "The Collapse and Fall of Floating Buffer Zones: The Court Clarifies Analysis for Reviewing Speech-restrictive Injunctions in Schenck v. Pro-Choice Network," 32 U. Rich. L. Rev. 275 (1998)
- "Recent Business Cases/Trends - Updates and Strategies," 27th Annual Business Law Seminar, Co-sponsored by Virginia CLE and Virginia State Bar, September 2009
- "The D.C. Accrued Sick and Safe Leave Act," McGuireWoods LLP Webinar, September 2008
- "FMLA Master Class: The Paper Chase: Notice, Recordkeeping, and Process Requirements," M. Lee Smith Publishers, November 2006
- "An Update on Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblower Provisions," March 2005
- "Understanding Generational Differences Among Our Lawyers," October 2004
- "Privacy Issues in the Workplace," March 2004
- "Labor & Employment Law Governing Government Contractors," June 2003
- "Handling Harassment Issues in Retail Environments," March 2002
- "You Should Know Better: Practical Advice for Law Firms," March 2002
- American Bar Association
- District of Columbia Bar
- Georgia State Bar
- Virginia State Bar
- Maryland State Bar Association
- Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM), Northern Virginia Chapter
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EDUCATION University of Richmond School of Law, Richmond, Virginia, J.D., magna cum laude, 1999
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, Master of Public Administration, 1994
The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, B.A., 1990 ADMITTED Virginia 2005 District of Columbia 2001 Maryland 2008 Georgia 1999 U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit 2004 U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit 2001 U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit 2002 U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia 2000 U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia 2000 U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia 2001 U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia 2006 U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia 2006 U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland 2009 PLACE OF BIRTH Newport News, Virginia |