Gracyn M. Heisterberg

Gracyn Heisterberg is an Associate in the firm’s Litigation Practice Group. Her practice focuses on premises liability, products liability, and negligence, including cases arising from shootings.

She has experience drafting briefs and motions, supporting depositions and mediations, and directing large-scale discovery projects. Prior to joining McLain & Merritt, she served as a law clerk advising corporate clients on data privacy compliance and governance, analyzing privacy and cybersecurity requirements under the CCPA/CPRA, the GDPR, and state statutes. She also evaluated AI-generated legal analysis from leading large language models, creating the accuracy rubric used to grade their responses, and prepared demand letters, treatment summaries, and case timelines for law firm clients at a legal technology company. Gracyn also brings a business owner’s perspective, having founded and operated a wellness studio where she handled entity formation, lease and vendor negotiations, and regulatory compliance.

Gracyn earned her J.D. from Georgia State University College of Law, where she served as a graduate research assistant. She earned her B.A. in Political Science from Southern Methodist University, where she was a Second Century Scholar.