Clients trust Evan to handle their corporate espionage investigations and litigation involving confidential information and trade secrets, as well as their most sensitive noncompete, nondisclosure, and employment matters.
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Evan is a practical, results-oriented attorney who partners with business clients to address their most critical corporate espionage matters. These matters typically involve the theft or unlawful retention of trade secrets and other confidential information by groups or individual former executives, employees, contractors, vendors, or other third parties. As co-chair of the firm's Corporate Espionage Response Team, Evan leads a multidisciplinary group of attorneys with extensive experience regarding corporate espionage matters. Together with a team of attorneys and technical experts, they leverage their deep experience with digital forensic investigations to ensure that clients' matters are handled using the most cutting-edge forensic technology available.
These matters also often involve the enforcement of noncompete, nonsolicitation, and nondisclosure agreements, another specific area Evan focuses his practice on. He has extensive experience drafting, enforcing, and defending against the enforcement of these types of agreements in numerous states across the U.S. His practice further encompasses disputes involving departed executives and other high-level employees (often involving business-to-business litigation), including claims of tortious interference, breach of fiduciary duties, breach of contract, fraud, civil conspiracy, defamation, and other business torts.
Clients also turn to Evan for solutions to their most difficult employment law problems, both for advice and counseling, and for litigation. His litigation experience primarily involves multiplaintiff/multidefendant cases, and class and collective actions. Evan also frequently advises businesses in Canada and the UK conducting business in the U.S. on cross-border employment matters.
Additionally, Evan has significant experience litigating claims against and on behalf of government entities, including claims under the U.S. and state constitutions arising under the Contracts Clause and the First, Fourth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments, among others. His experience in this area includes oral argument and briefing on state and federal constitutional issues before the Georgia Supreme Court.
Evan's work has been covered by, Court TV, Dateline, 60 minutes, NBC New York, Bloomberg News, Law & Crime Network, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Los Angeles Daily News, BuzzFeed News, and others. He is a former columnist for AboveTheLaw.com, where he wrote about legal issues in the context of popular culture.
Evan also regularly provides pro bono legal representation to various charitable organizations and individuals. He is one of the attorneys representing Ryan Duke in the State of Georgia v. Duke litigation involving the disappearance of Tara Grinstead, a case covered by the Up and Vanished podcast and other media outlets.
Trade Secret and Restrictive Covenant Matters
Successfully pursued claims against departing executive who absconded with large volume of company data, ultimately recovering stolen data and more than $300,000 in attorneys' fees in case involving evidence destruction and perjury.
Employment Litigation Matters
Traditional Labor Matters
Business Litigation Matters
Pro Bono Matters
Representative matters may include engagements before joining Troutman Pepper.
Evan often writes about various aspects of his practice. His publications include:
Evan is frequent speaker at the state, regional, and national levels on a variety of topics relevant to his practice.
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