Eric Evans Partner

Eric Evans represents major high-tech clients in complex commercial litigation matters, including large-scale federal false advertising, privacy, and antitrust class actions. He also handles intellectual property (IP) matters, assisting leading technology companies in protecting their IP assets.

Among Eric’s recent successes on behalf of clients is a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit victory for a global investments company against a trade secret claim brought by a competitor. He also favorably settled a cluster of related copyright actions against a major online music provider based on assertions of copyright in compositions from the 1920s and 1930s.

Before he went to law school, Eric was associate director of instructional technology at Denison University, where he experienced the formative years of technology law from the client side as Denison’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act agent and enforced and redrafted the university’s Acceptable Use Policy for Network Resources. This experience as an IT professional informs his advice to clients on information governance and cybersecurity.

Eric maintains an active pro bono and has represented clients in high-profile voter suppression matters, as well as a challenge to the legality of the Trump administration’s travel ban that disproportionately affected Muslim families. He speaks Arabic and French and has some skill in Persian and Turkish.