30 Jun 2026
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton Adds Litigation Partner Eric Evans in Silicon Valley
"Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton hires partner Eric Evans in Silicon Valley to its Complex Commercial Litigation Team; he will work on trade secret, class action defense, antitrust, privacy and data governance matters."
Mr. Evans has extensive experience representing innovative technology companies in high-stakes trade secret disputes, class action defense, and complex data governance matters. He represents clients in large-scale federal class actions involving false advertising, privacy, and antitrust claims and advises on trade secret protection and enforcement and on the integration of generative AI tools into business operations. Mr. Evans is joining Kilpatrick from Perkins Coie.
Drawing on a prior career in information technology, Mr. Evans brings a technical perspective to his practice and counsels clients on the design and defensibility of machine learning systems, information governance frameworks, privacy compliance, and cybersecurity. He has recognized thought leadership on generative AI in legal practice.
Mr. Evans earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School, where he served as Contributing Editor of the Michigan Law Review and Executive Note Editor of the Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review. He holds an M.A. and an A.B. from Harvard University, where he concentrated on Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.
Before law school, Mr. Evans served as associate director of instructional technology at Denison University, where he was the institution’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act agent and redrafted its Acceptable Use Policy for Network Resources. He speaks Arabic and French and is conversant in Farsi and Turkish.
Mr. Evans maintains an active pro bono practice. He has represented clients in voter suppression matters, served as counsel in a successful class action that brought relief to victims of travel bans, and is leading a pro bono project to establish the public domain status of the works of the poet Ahmad Shamlou to support publication of an English-language collection of Shamlou’s poetry.