About

Founder

Juris Doctor, Duquesne University
Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Ohio University
Diploma of Nursing, UPMC Mercy Hospital School of Nursing

Attorney Erin McCluan is the founder of McCluan Law, PLLC, a law firm dedicated to representing Pennsylvania’s health care professionals in licensure matters before their state boards. Ms. McCluan was a bedside nurse for five years prior to becoming an attorney, and her clinical background has proven to be invaluable when representing clients in professional license defense actions, health care regulatory & compliance matters, and federal appeals of administrative decisions.

Having worked as a registered nurse throughout law school, Ms. McCluan is a proud evening division graduate of Duquesne University Thomas R. Kline School of Law. She was an editor of Duquesne Law Review, where she published her work on the role of health licensing boards in preserving access to essential medicines during public health emergencies. While working with a regional health law firm, she was published in the Journal of Hospital Administration, where she and her coauthors evaluated the legal implications of volume-based credentialing and provided practical solutions to meet rural health care needs at lower volume hospitals.

She is honored to have won several awards throughout law school for earning top scores in Professional Responsibility, Torts, and Civil Procedure. She was awarded Best Appellate Brief in her division. Perhaps her most treasured achievement was receiving the Distinguished Student Award, which is given on behalf of the entire law school faculty to those who have demonstrated a commitment to professional and academic excellence.

Ms. McCluan currently serves on the board of directors of the National Institute of Rural and Minority Health, an interdisciplinary health policy think tank that delivers data-driven solutions to address health care barriers in underserved communities. She is a member of The American Association of Nurse Attorneys (TAANA), one of the leading organizations in the country for professional license defense expertise. She was privileged to speak at TAANA’s 2021 and 2023 annual conferences: first, regarding her drug regulation research, and later regarding the relationship between evidence-based judicial decision-making and what it means to be disabled. As a senior associate attorney with Osterhout Berger Daley, LLC, she demonstrated her relentless and zealous advocacy for people with disabilities both in and out of court.

• The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
• The United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
• The United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin