THEANE EVANGELIS
Partner and Co-Chair, Litigation Practice Group
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
In the last year alone, Theane 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. Evangelis has emerged as a go-to litigator for businesses whose business models are under attack.
In July 2022, Evangelis continued her winning streak on Section 1 of the Federal Arbitration Act by scoring a huge victory for Grubhub in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in Archer v. Grubhub. The unanimous decision is the first appellate case on the applicability of Section 1 in the gig economy since the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent Section 1 decision in Southwest Airlines v. Saxon. The decision reversed the trial court’s ruling and held that workers who use Grubhub’s app to make deliveries are not “engaged in interstate commerce” within the meaning of Section 1.
