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Evan Jones

Blasingame, Burch, Garrard & Ashley, P.C. 440 College Avenue Suite 320 Athens, GA 30601 Practice Area(s): Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice call (706) 354-4000 visit website

Biographical Information Admission Dates & Jurisdictions Education Professional Experience Honors & Awards Professional Associations Press Verdicts & Settlements

Biographical Information

Evan W. Jones focuses primarily on catastrophic injury cases, including those resulting from medical malpractice and nursing home negligence and/or abuse. Throughout his years in practice, he has successfully obtained substantial settlements and jury verdicts on behalf of his clients, totaling $88 million.

Admission Dates & Jurisdictions

  • State Bar of Georgia
  • Atlanta Bar Association
  • Georgia Court of Appeals
  • Georgia Supreme Court
  • Georgia Superior Courts
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
  • U.S. Court of Military Appeals

Education

  • University of Georgia: A.B., 1988
  • University of Georgia Joseph Henry Lumpkin School of Law: J.D., 1991

Professional Experience

Evan obtained his A.B. with general honors from the University of Georgia. He graduated from the University of Georgia Joseph Henry Lumpkin School of Law with his J.D. in 1991 before going on to serve in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps where he gained valuable experience as a prosecutor in both military and federal courts. In the JACG, he served as trial counsel and as a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the 7th Infantry Division (Light) in Monterey, California. He also served as Trial Counsel for the 3/325th Airborne Battalion Combat Team (ABCT) and the SETAF (Airborne) Brigade which later became the 173rd Airborne at Caserma Ederle.

For a number of years, he served on the defense side of personal injury claims, representing hospitals, nursing homes, and physicians in cases involving medical malpractice claims. After defending these individuals and entities from 1995 to 2003, Evan ultimately decided to switch his practice to plaintiffs’ representation and litigation. Now, he works on behalf of injured victims who were harmed by medical institutions and professionals. His experience on both sides allows him a greater knowledge of how the process works and what tactics the defense will likely employ. He uses this knowledge to better fight for his clients’ rights.

Alongside co-counsel, Evan was instrumental in obtaining one of the largest nursing home arbitration verdicts in Georgia to this day. He also served as the lead counsel in Peterson v. Reeves, 315 Ga. App. 370 (2012), cert denied, 727 S.E. 2d 171. The case became a defining example of psychiatrists’ duties to treat mentally ill patients under the standard of care in a voluntary outpatient setting, and was even cited in courts throughout the nation, as well as in scholarly articles regarding the rights of the mentally ill.

 

Honors & Awards

  • Georgia Super Lawyers®
  • AV® Rated by Martindale-Hubbell®
  • Listed in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers
  • Georgia Trial Lawyers Association
  • Southern Trial Lawyers Association
  • American Association of Justice
  • “Who’s Who” list in American Law
  • Top 100 High Stakes Litigator® in Georgia

Professional Associations

  • Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, “Champions” Member, Legislative Committee, Medical Malpractice Committee
  • American Association for Justice, Medical Malpractice Subsection, Nursing Home Subsection
  • Southern Trial Lawyers Association
  • Lawyers Club of Atlanta
  • Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America
  • ACC-SANE, Inc. Board of Directors

Press

 

Verdicts & Settlements

  • Multiple 7-figure medical malpractice settlements across the State of Georgia.
  • A confidential six-figure settlement against a Georgia assisted living facility for failure to prevent a resident’s fall that led to a broken hip.
  • A confidential settlement against a South Georgia assisted living facility for failure to prevent a resident from choking to death.
  • $4 million – failure to diagnose a spinal epidural abscess, which led to the patient’s quadriplegia.
  • $3.25 million – failure to anticoagulate patient with mechanical heart valve during elective surgical procedure.
  • $3.2 million – confidential settlement.
  • $2 million – for failure to recognize a bleed in the ER that led to death.
  • $2 million – for failure to properly treat a heart attack.
  • $1.7 million – A commercial box truck owned and operated by a tire company collided with a minivan causing serious injuries to two people.
  • $1.675 million – for failure to recognize an abnormal EKG and heart attack.
  • $975,000 – for the wrongful death of a patient who developed a subclavian port infection.
  • $950,000 – for the wrongful death of a patient who fell.

 

 

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