Evan G.E. VincentAttorney
Evan Vincent is a director in the firm’s Oklahoma City office. His practice involves a wide variety of complex and high stakes civil matters, and he regularly handles cases as lead counsel in the pretrial, trial and appellate stages. He has particular experience with construction disputes, lawsuits involving the oil and gas industry, catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases and shareholder disputes in closely held companies. Trial work is his true passion, however, and he has actively sought out opportunities for courtroom experience since he began practicing law and has tried cases to verdict in front of juries, judges and arbitrators.
Evan earned an LL.M. in Trial Advocacy from Temple Law School in 2020, and in that program he received the Faculty Award for outstanding achievement in courtroom presentation and performance. He has taught Civil Pretrial Litigation as an adjunct professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Law since 2016. Evan has achieved the Advocate designation from the National Institute of Trial Advocacy, and has an AV peer review rating from LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell. He has been named a Rising Star by Oklahoma Super Lawyers from 2012-2019, been named to Benchmark Litigation’s 40 & Under Hot List in 2016, 2018, 2019 and 2020, and has been listed in Best Lawyers for Appellate Practice in 2019, 2020 and 2021.*
*Crowe & Dunlevy has no input in the rating methodologies used by Super Lawyers, Benchmark Litigation, Best Lawyers and LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell.
Representative experience includes*:
- Successfully representing oil well operators sued for catastrophic injury or wrongful death in which the plaintiff alleged that gases escaping from an oil tank battery caused the injury, including one wrongful death matter in which he was lead trial counsel for a four day, federal court jury trial that settled before closing arguments
- Obtaining a directed verdict for the defendant at the close of plaintiff’s case in a federal court jury trial involving ownership rights in a $24 million natural gas gathering system
- Part of the trial team in a seven day jury trial on damages for trade secret misappropriation
- Successfully representing the University of Oklahoma in state and federal court proceedings involving a starting OU football player’s challenge to a suspension imposed under the University’s Title IX procedures
- Obtaining summary judgment in favor of the manufacturer of a resin coated proppant used in hydraulic fracturing in a federal court lawsuit involving product liability and breach of warranty claims
- Part of the appellate team that obtained a reversal that reduced a $119 million judgment to $3.6 million in a class action alleging a well operator failed to protect oil and gas leases from drainage by other wells
- Successfully represented the general contractor in a million dollar payment dispute with the owner, bank and 27 subcontractors that arose from the construction of a fraternity house at the University of Oklahoma
- Successfully represented defendant property owners in premises liability cases in which the injured party was severely injured or died
- Representing product manufacturers and distributors against product liability and negligence claims alleging catastrophic injury from product defects
- Representing owners, sureties, general contractors, and subcontractors in disputes involving a broad range of issues arising from construction projects
- Represented majority and minority owners in limited liability companies to prosecute and defendant claims for breach of fiduciary duty and/or company mismanagement
- Defense of claims against a bank relating to checks written and deposited in connection with the operation of a Ponzi scheme
- Representing an Oklahoma rural electric cooperative in an antitrust lawsuit asserting violations of Section 2 of the Sherman Act against a wholesale electric cooperative
- Representing defendants in trademark, patent and copyright cases in federal court
- Representing a telecommunications company in prosecution of claims arising from manufacturing defects in fiber optic cable
Published decisions include:
- Mojsilovic v. Oklahoma ex rel. Board of Regents for University of Oklahoma, 841 F.3d 1129 (10th Cir. 2016)
- Custom Radio Corporation v. Passenger Transportation Specialists, Inc., 241 P.3d 658 (Okla. Ct. Civ. App. 2010)
- High Sierra Energy, L.P. v. Hull, 241 P.3d 1149 (Okla. Ct. Civ. App. 2010)
- High Sierra Energy, L.P. v. Hull, et al., 259 P.3d 902 (Okla. Ct. Civ. App. 2011)
*Past results afford no guarantee of future results. Every case is different and must be judged on its merits.
Temple Law School
Philadelphia, PA
LL.M., Trial Advocacy, 2020
University of Oklahoma College of Law
Norman, OK
J.D., 2008
Honors:
With Highest Honors
Order of the Coif
Oklahoma Law Review; Assistant Managing Editor
Gene & Jo Ann Sharp Award for Outstanding Appointed Editor
Comfort Scholarship
University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK
B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, 2005
Honors:
Outstanding Senior in Aerospace Engineering
Men's Letzeiser Honor List
AME Worstell Scholarship
- U.S. Supreme Court, 2016
- U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Circuit, 2012
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Oklahoma, 2009
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Oklahoma, 2009
- Oklahoma, 2008
- U.S. District Court Western District of Oklahoma, 2008
- U.S. Court of Appeals 10th Circuit
- American Bar Association
- Oklahoma Bar Association
- Luther Bohanon American Inn of Court, Barrister
- International Association of Defense Counsel
- Oklahoma Association of Defense Counsel
- Construction Lawyers Society of America, Fellow
- Member of the Journal Record’s Achievers Under 40 Class IX
- Member of the Inaugural Class of Ion Oklahoma’s NextGen 30 Under 30
- Member of Leadership Oklahoma City’s LOYAL Class 6
- Named to Benchmark Litigation's 40 & Under Hot List (2016, 2018, 2019, 2020)
- Listed in Benchmark Litigation as an Oklahoma Future Star (2018 - Present)
- Named a National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) Advocate, 2016
- Named as a Super Lawyers Oklahoma Rising Star in General Litigation, Business Litigation, Energy & Natural Resources, Construction Litigation: Business (2012 – Present)
- Listed in Best Lawyers in Appellate Practice (2019 - Present)
- "Work/Life Balance: A Structured but Flexible Approach," The Oklahoma Bar Journal, Vol. 83, No. 8, March 10, 2012
- Adjunct Professor, Civil Pretrial Litigation, University of Oklahoma College of Law
- Oklahoma Blood Institute, Board of Directors
