Adam Evans

Of Counsel at The Carlson Law Firm
Killeen, TX17 years experience

About Adam Evans

Adam M. Evans serves as Of Counsel to The Carlson Law Firm, focusing on mass tort litigation, medical products liability, environmental and toxic tort cases, and aggregate litigation. Based in Kansas City, he is widely recognized as an authoritative voice in emerging mass tort litigation and the underlying science and medicine. Over his career, he has obtained recoveries on behalf of thousands of injured clients in matters involving surgical mesh, hormone-based contraceptives, defective defibrillator lead wires, and robotic surgery systems.

Proven verdicts and settlements at The Carlson Law Firm

These results are credited to The Carlson Law Firm. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

A federal court in Washington, D.C. awarded $1.956 billion to 114 survivors and Gold Star family members in Carlson Law Firm's second successful default-judgment lawsuit holding Iran liable for the October 2000 USS Cole bombing.

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Judge Rudolph Contreras; case 1:21-cv-01187) · 2024Read the full story →

A federal court in Washington, D.C. awarded $807 million to 58 USS Cole bombing survivors and immediate family members after finding that Iran provided material support to the al-Qaeda operatives who carried out the 2000 attack.

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Judge Rudolph Contreras; case 1:20-cv-01557) · 2023Read the full story →

A San Antonio jury returned the largest sexual assault verdict in U.S. history against a sole assailant, awarding $325 million to a child sexually abused by her grandfather over multiple years.

285th District Court, Bexar County, TX (Judge Nadine Nieto) · 2023Read the full story →
$7.4 millionVerdict

A Travis County jury awarded Ronnie Claxton of Del Valle and his wife about $7.4 million in January 2020 after an oversized load struck a Highway 71 overpass and a heavy steel tie-down ratchet from the load came through his windshield, injuring his neck and spine. On August 31, 2022, the Eighth Court of Appeals reversed in large part, rendering judgment for the owner and on several claims against the company and driver, and remanded the remaining claims for a new trial.

146th District Court, Travis County, Texas · 2020Truck AccidentsRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Rutgers University School of Law - Camden
J.D., 2008
University of Missouri - Columbia
Undergraduate, 2003

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Missouri
State Bar of Kansas
State Bar of New Jersey
State Bar of Multiple federal District Courts
State Bar of United States Supreme Court
Co-chair, Hernia Mesh Litigation Group - American Association for Justice
Co-chair, Implanted Port Catheter Litigation Group - American Association for Justice
Chair, Mass Tort Section - Kansas Trial Lawyers Association
Volunteer Attorney Project (Legal Aid of Western Missouri)
Military Matters (KCMBA veterans' pro bono clinic)

Awards & recognition

Top 40 Under 40 - National Trial Lawyers
Super Lawyers Rising Star (every year since 2014)

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