SUSAN A. EVANS, ESQUIRE

Sue Evans was born in Washington, D.C. on August 31, 1954 and admitted to the Virginia Bar in 1979 and the District of Columbia Bar in 1982. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia in 1976 and her Juris Doctorate from the University of Richmond in 1979. After completing law school, she was a law clerk for the 19th Judicial Circuit of Virginia from 1979 through 1980.

Ms. Evans is a member of the Fairfax Bar Association, the Virginia State Bar, the American Bar Association, the District of Columbia Bar, the Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys, and the Northern Virginia Defense Lawyers Association. She has served as an officer in the Northern Virginia Young Lawyers Association and as president of the Northern Virginia Defense Lawyers Association.

In 1983, Ms. Evans was appointed by the Supreme Court of Virginia to serve on Medical Malpractice Review Panels in Virginia. In 1989, she was appointed by the Supreme Court of Virginia to serve as a substitute judge in the General District Courts of Virginia. Ms. Evans has defended lawsuits in all of the Virginia and District of Columbia Courts, including the defense of personal injury claims, premises liability litigation, false arrest, false imprisonment, and general tort cases.

Ms. Evans now specializes in the defense of workers’ compensation claims. She has handled hundreds of claims at the hearing level over the last twenty-four years, with many cases going to the Full Commission, Court of Appeals, and the Virginia Supreme Court. Ms. Evans was appointed to the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission Committee to address rehabilitation issues. She has spoken on behalf of employers at several committee and special inquiry sessions of the Virginia General Assembly, and has served as an expert witness on compensation defense handling in a legal malpractice case. She is a member of the Workers’ Compensation program given by the Virginia Continuing Legal Education Committee, (biannually, statewide), and has spoken at numerous private and public seminars on the employers’ perspective in worker’s compensation cases. She is listed in “The Best Lawyers in America” for her work defending Virginia workers’ compensation cases and is “AV” rated by Martindale-Hubbell.