Evan G.E. VincentShareholder/Director
Evan Vincent’s practice involves representing clients in a wide variety of complex and high stakes civil litigation matters and he regularly serves as lead counsel from pre-filing through the completion of the appellate process in disputes involving numerous different areas of law. His caseload consists of matters pending in state and federal courts inside and outside of Oklahoma, and he has tried cases to verdict in Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Pennsylvania. Evan has particular experience with product liability lawsuits, catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases, shareholder disputes in closely held companies, construction disputes, and lawsuits involving the oil and gas industry.
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. He was recognized as a Fellow of the Construction Lawyers Society of America in 2019, achieved the Advocate designation from the National Institute of Trial Advocacy in 2016, and has an AV peer review rating from LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell. He has been named a Rising Star by Oklahoma Super Lawyers since 2012, been named an Oklahoma Future Star by Benchmark Litigation since 2018, been named to Benchmark Litigation’s 40 & Under Hot List in 2016 and from 2018-2022, and has been listed in Best Lawyers for Appellate Practice since 2019.*
*Crowe & Dunlevy has no input in the rating methodologies used by Super Lawyers, Benchmark Litigation, Best Lawyers and LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell.
Representative experience includes*:
- Obtained a verdict for his client, the plaintiff, in a breach of contract jury trial in Pennsylvania state court;
- Prevailed on an affirmative defense that significantly reduced the defendant’s liability to the plaintiff in a jury trial in federal court in Arkansas;
- Obtained summary judgment on all claims asserted against a minority owner of an LLC who was alleged to have damaged the business and obtained summary judgment on liability for that minority owner’s counterclaim against the majority owner;
- Successfully defended the chief executive and largest owner of an Oklahoma LLC from allegations of mismanagement and self-dealing;
- Obtained a reversal of the trial court’s verdict and a ruling from the appellate court that the trial court enter judgment in favor of his client in a matter involving collection of the defendant’s personal guaranty of a $5 million dollar debt;
- Served as lead trial counsel for the defense in a federal court jury trial in which the plaintiff alleged intentional interference with prospective economic advantage;
- Served as trial counsel for a creditor in a bankruptcy adversary proceeding and successfully obtained a ruling that denied the debtor’s discharge;
- Successfully represented multiple 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;
- Obtained 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;
- 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
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
Honors:
With Honors
Faculty Award
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
- Trial Law Institute, Member
- Diversity Law Institute, Member
- 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, 2021, 2022)
- 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)
- Construction Lawyers Society of America, Fellow
- "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
