Annette Rolain focuses her practice in complex civil, insurance coverage and bankruptcy-related litigation, with an emphasis on sexual abuse, PFAS, environmental liability, toxic torts and other long-tail bodily injury and property damage claims. Her practice involves cases in state and federal jurisdictions throughout the United States. Annette has experience in dispositive motions practice and bench trials. She currently represents several clients in high-profile bankruptcy-related insurance disputes. Annette also counsels clients in a variety of pre-litigation matters involving commercial general liability coverage.

Annette previously represented private companies, landowners and Native American tribes in federal takings, breach of trust, and environmental enforcement litigation before the United States Court of Federal Claims. During law school, Annette served as a law clerk for the Environmental and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and, as a student-attorney, assisted low-income clients in achieving access to justice through her law school’s Civil Advocacy Clinic.

  • American University Washington College of Law, J.D., 2016

    University of Wisconsin - Madison, B.A., 2009

  • District of Columbia

    Virginia

  • U.S. Court of Federal Claims

    U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

    U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York

    U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia

    U.S. District Court, Western District of Virginia

  • Listed as a Washington, D.C. Super Lawyer® Rising Star (2024)

    American University Business Law Review, Editorial Staff Member (2014-2016)

  • American Bar Association

    Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia