THEANE EVANGELIS
Partner and Co-Chair of the global Litigation Practice Group
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Theane Evangelis is an appellate, class action, and general commercial litigation partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She serves as co-chair of the firm’s global Litigation Practice Group and previously served as co-chair of the firm’s Class Actions Practice Group. In the last year alone, Evangelis has played a lead role in a wide range of high-profile, groundbreaking litigation matters and has been a leading lawyer who has helped shaped how companies serving the “gig economy” operate. She has emerged as a go-to class action lawyer for businesses whose business models are under attack.
In addition, Evangelis has played a substantial role in a wide range of appellate, constitutional, media and entertainment, and crisis management matters, as well as a variety of other employment and consumer-related class actions. She joined Gibson Dunn after serving as a law clerk to Justice Sandra Day O’Connor during October Term 2004. Before clerking for Justice O’Connor, she was a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Evangelis serves on the board of the California Women’s Law Center and as an advisory board member of the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival. She serves on the State Appellate Judicial Evaluation Committee of the Los Angeles Bar Association and is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the NYU Law School as well as St. James Episcopal School. She was also recently appointed to serve as a commissioner on the Los Angeles County Blue Ribbon Commission on Homelessness.