Robert A. McLean
Robert A. McLean helps local and regional developers, businesses, and individuals solve disputes involving commercial transactions, environmental regulations, and land use ordinances. With more than 45 years of experience, he has a keen ability to apply litigation skills in transactions, helping to spot the issues that can move resolution forward. He has tried cases involving: real estate; eminent domain; securities and commodities fraud; environmental and contribution claims; wrongful death; products liability; medical malpractice; will contests; copyright infringement; and contract disputes. Robert is a FINRA arbitrator and a NAM panel member. He has mediated the following kinds of cases: wrongful death, medical malpractice, eminent domain, contract disputes, and personal injury. He has served as the Hearing Officer for Shelby County Groundwater Quality Control Board on an appeal by the Sierra Club of two TVA well permits. Robert graduated from Rhodes College (B.A.) in 1965, Princeton University (M.A.) in 1968, Princeton University (Ph.D.) in 1974, and the University of Memphis, Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law (J.D.) in 1978. He is fluent in Russian and speaks French.