Eric B. Evans is a partner in Mayer Brown's Palo Alto office and a member of the firm's Electronic Discovery Services Oversight Committee, and a member the firm's Intellectual Property and Electronic Discovery & Records Management practice groups. He has extensive experience in complex intellectual property and licensing litigation and concentrates his practice on electronic discovery in complex litigation matters.
Before he attended law school, Eric served as Associate Director of Instructional Technology at Denison University, where he acted as Denison's Digital Millennium Copyright Act agent and enforced and redrafted the university's Acceptable Use Policy for Network Resources. He also holds an A.M. Degree in Middle Eastern Studies and an A.B. summa cum laude in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University, where he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship to the University of Jordan in Amman, where he studied Arabic and history.
Employment
Mayer Brown LLP, Palo Alto, 2005 to date
Education
The University of Michigan Law School, JD, magna cum laude, 2004; Order of the Coif; Contributing Editor, Michigan Law Review o Executive Note Editor, Michigan Tel, and Tech. Law Review o Harvard University, AM, 1997 o Harvard University, AB, summa cum laude, 1993; Phi Beta Kappa
Admissions
- California, 2004
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
- U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit