Profile
Austin Evans is a trial lawyer in the Litigation Practice in Greenberg Traurig’s Denver, Atlanta, and Philadelphia offices, and a shareholder in the firm. He represents manufacturers, retailers, and other businesses in high-profile litigation nationwide. Austin’s practice encompasses individual and mass-tort product liability matters, complex commercial disputes, class actions, and intellectual property litigation, in state and federal courts.
Austin has robust trial and litigation management experience across the retail, consumer products, food & beverage, automotive, airline, technology, life sciences, and pharmaceutical/medical device industries. His commercial litigation experience includes contract and business tort claims, unfair competition, and disputes involving online commerce, affiliate marketing, browser extension technology, and digital attribution. He also represents clients in trademark matters involving infringement, licensing, and related unfair competition claims. Austin handles matters from early case assessment through trial, frequently in the toughest jurisdictions in the country. Having participated in more than 15 trials, Austin works up and evaluates each matter with a view towards trial.
Trusted by clients, Austin leverages his in-house experience at a Fortune 50 retailer to identify problems before they arise, and develops creative strategies to address them. He takes a strategic, practical, and results-driven approach to litigation, and counsels clients with a 360-degree mindset. In addition to his litigation work, Austin advises clients on risk mitigation, litigation portfolio management, large-scale settlement programs, and internal investigations.
Austin has also counseled some of the world’s largest companies following mass shootings. Having managed these matters in-house and litigated them externally, Austin is aware of the unique legal challenges they present and provides helpful counsel to companies when they need it most.
Concentrations
- Products liability
- Multidistrict litigation
- Pharmaceutical and medical device litigation
- Commercial litigation
- Class action
- Settlement administration
- Litigation risk strategy
- Environmental and toxic tort litigation
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주요 경력
- Serves as lead national litigation counsel to a global e-commerce company in consolidated class action litigation involving affiliate marketing, browser-extension technology, digital tracking, and online attribution models.
- Represents a consumer products company in product liability cases across the country.
- Represents a consumer products company in federal trademark litigation involving ownership, registration, licensing, and related unfair competition claims.
- Defended Fortune 50 retailer in multidistrict litigation (MDL) alleging that prenatal ingestion of acetaminophen causes ASD and ADHD in children.°
- Defended Coloplast in nationwide products liability litigation related to injuries allegedly caused by its female pelvic-mesh devices.°
- Acted as trial counsel for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. in Neff v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (June 2023), a multiweek wrongful death trial in Broward County, Florida that resulted in a verdict of 1.6% of plaintiff’s demand without entitlement to punitive damages.°
- Defended Fortune 50 retailer and Beech-Nut in litigation alleging that trace amounts of heavy metals in baby food causes ASD and ADHD.°
- Obtained dismissal of pure bill of discovery for lack of personal jurisdiction, which was affirmed on appeal. MSP Recovery Claims, Series LLC v. Coloplast Corp., 353 So. 3d 705 (Fla. 3d DCA 2023).°
- Acted as trial counsel for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. in Miller v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Sept. 2022), a multiweek wrongful death trial in Miami-Dade County, Florida that resulted in a verdict of 3.5% of plaintiff’s demand without entitlement to punitive damages.°
- Acted as national settlement counsel for a global life sciences company.°
°The above representations were handled by Mr. Evans prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
- Senior Counsel, Walmart Inc., 2018-2021
수상 및 주요 활동
- Listed, The Legal 500 United States, Dispute Resolution> Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Action- Defense: Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices, 2025
- Team Member, "Georgia Firm of the Year," Benchmark Litigation, 2025, 2026
- Member, International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC), 2013-Present
- Member, DRI, 2008-Present
학력 및 자격사항
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J.D., University of Pittsburgh School of Law
- Order of the Barristers
- Health Law Certificate
- B.S., University of Georgia
- Colorado
- Florida
- Georgia
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
- Texas