Adam M. Evans is an experienced litigator with expertise in medical products liability, environmental and toxic torts, and aggregate litigation. Adam is widely known as an authoritative voice in the legal community regarding emerging mass tort litigations as well as the science and medicine underlying the cases. Adam has been invited to speak throughout the country to educate lawyers and medical professionals about various topics relating to biomaterials science, medicine, and litigation. Adam joined Dickerson Oxton in 2022 and currently heads the firm’s Mass Tort Division.
Adam regularly serves in Plaintiffs’ nationwide leadership in high-profile litigations, including serving on the Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee in the Atrium Medical Corp. C-Qur Mesh Multidistrict Litigation, the Gilead Tenofovir Coordinated Proceedings (Calif. JCCP 5043), and in the In Re: Exactech Polyethylene Orthopedic Products Liability Litigation. Adam was most recently appointed to serve as one of the Plaintiff Co-Lead attorneys in the multi-district litigation proceeding In Re: Bard Implanted Port Catheter Products Liability Litigation, pending in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona.
Background
Adam completed undergraduate degrees in English and Philosophy at the University of Missouri – Columbia in 2003 and graduated from Rutgers University School of Law – Camden in 2008. After law school, Adam entered private practice representing victims of dangerous drugs and medical devices. Over his career, Adam has represented and obtained recoveries on behalf of thousands of injured clients, including those harmed by surgical mesh products, hormone-based contraceptive drugs, defective defibrillator lead wires, robotic surgery systems, and many others.
In addition to running a busy Mass Tort practice, Adam volunteers legal services to underserved members of his community with the Volunteer Attorney Project through Legal Aid of Western Missouri and with Military Matters, a veterans’ pro bono legal clinic operated by KCMBA.
Bar Admissions
- Missouri
- Kansas
- New Jersey
- United States District Court, Western District of Missouri
- United States District Court, Eastern District of Missouri
- United States District Court, District of Kansas
- United States District Court, District of New Jersey
- United States Supreme Court
Education
- Rutgers University School of Law, Juris Doctor
- University of Missouri-Columbia, Bachelor of Arts
Presentations & Speaking Engagements
- Hernia Prevention: Is an Ounce of Prevention Always Worth a Pound of Cure?, Great Debate Sessions: SAGES 2019 Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD
- Mechanisms of Injury in Hernia Mesh Cases, Mass Torts Made Perfect; Mass Tort Nexus; 2018-2019
Memberships, Honors & Awards
- Kansas Trial Lawyers Association (KTLA)
- American Association for Justice (AAJ)
- National Trial Lawyers, Top 40 Under 40
- Super Lawyers Rising Stars
Personal
Adam lives in Kansas City, Missouri. Hypothetically speaking, if Adam were to encounter some free time, he would spend it camping, smoking brisket, gardening, and/or watching soccer.