As a member of the Pro Bono & Community Engagement team, Darcy McLean develops and maintains relationships with legal services organizations and law firm pro bono coordinators firmwide. She facilitates trainings and volunteer opportunities for attorneys and staff and manages the firm’s corporate philanthropy for legal service and nonprofit organizations.
Before joining the firm, Darcy was the director of public interest programs and the deputy director of the Center for Access to Justice at the Georgia State University College of Law.
Darcy clerked for the Hon. J. Frederick Motz of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland before joining an Am Law 100 firm, where she focused her practice on white collar criminal defense and complex civil litigation and maintained an active pro bono practice. Her crowning pro bono achievement was co-writing an amicus brief that was cited twice in U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's concurring opinion.
Darcy received her A.B. in public policy from Brown University and her J.D. from UCLA School of Law, where she graduated Order of the Coif, served as editor in chief of the UCLA Law Review, and was a member of the David J. Epstein Public Interest Law Program. Before law school, Darcy was the education coordinator at the Williams Institute, a law and policy think tank.