Evelyn A. French

Evelyn focuses her practice on antitrust and competition matters, including mergers and acquisitions, Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR), counseling, compliance, and regulatory reviews by the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission. Evelyn specializes in advising clients in the health care industry and has counseled health care companies on the antitrust aspects of transactions. Evelyn also engages in trade association representation.

In addition, Evelyn has a regulatory and compliance practice involving the Consumer Product Safety Act (CPSA) and other federal and state product safety laws. She helps companies seeking representation on product safety reporting obligations, product safety investigations, recalls, and other regulatory and enforcement matters.

Prior to joining Mintz, Evelyn was a litigation associate at a law firm in Atlanta, where she litigated a variety of disputes in state and federal courts, including disputes related to breach of contract, products liability, and breach of fiduciary duty. She authored numerous dispositive motions as well as pleadings and discovery requests.

Evelyn also clerked for Chief Judge Thomas Thrash of the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. As a law clerk, she researched and drafted judicial opinions for cases involving products liability, antitrust, personal injury, and constitutional law. Additionally, she gained significant experience with multidistrict litigation and class actions. In law school, she was editor-in-chief of the Georgia Law Review.