Evan A. Burkholder

Mr. Burkholder heads the LeClairRyan Detroit office and has over 30 years of trial experience in business litigation, wrongful death actions, catastrophic injury cases, design defect cases, and product recall actions. He has represented architects, engineers and accountants in professional liability actions and has defended insurers in first party policy (fire, all risk property or business interruption) cases, as well as bad faith and excess liability claims. He has worked on complicated construction projects, representing design-build firms. He has defended pharmaceutical companies in medical device cases, ethical drug litigation and in generic drug registration litigation. His toxic tort experience includes the representation of manufacturers and distributors in lung cancer, liver cancer (nickel products), asbestosis, silicosis and mold cases. He has tried complicated UCC cases involving requirements contracts and just-in-time inventory systems. His practice has included the representation of domestic and foreign firearms manufacturers. His background includes experience in the U. S. Marine Corps as a trial counsel and military judge, work as a police commissioner and training as an armorer.

The George Washington University Law School

J.D.

1968 - 1971

Honors: Order of the Coif

Hanover College

B.A. | Philosophy/Theology

1964 - 1968

Honors: Graduated with Honors

Shareholder

LeClair Ryan

2008 - Current

Partner

Wright Robinson Osthimer & Tatum

2005 - 2008

Partner

McGuire Woods

1994 - 2005

Partner

Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP

1981 - 1994

Associate

McGuire Woods

1974 - 1981

Trial & Defense Counsel, Military Judge

U. S. Marine Corp

1971 - 1974

Michigan State Bar  # 67986

Member

Current

Michigan

Since 2005

Virginia

Since 1971

• General Civil
• Insurance Bad Faith