Evan
H.
Pontz
Partner
Atlanta
Business Phone:
404.885.3518
Business Fax:
404.962.6656
evan.pontz@troutmansanders.com
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Evan specializes in employment and labor law matters, including employment discrimination litigation, traditional labor law issues, compliance counseling and preventative training.
Representative Experience
Represents companies such as AT&T, Georgia-Pacific, Cable News Network, Turner Broadcasting System, Waffle House, Zale Corporation and Georgia Power Company in employment discrimination litigation involving sex, race, age, disability, sexual harassment and state law tort claims.
Counsels clients such as Cable News Network, Turner Broadcasting System, Georgia Power Company, and Cousins Properties on various issues of labor and employment law.
Provides training and counseling for management employees of companies such as Georgia Power Company, Cable News Network, Cousins Properties, Emory Hospitals and Southern Nuclear Operating Company in complying with federal and state employment laws and regulations.
Publications
“What a Difference ADEA Makes: Why Disparate Impact Theory Should Not Apply to the Age Discrimination in Employment Act,” 74 North Carolina Law Review 267 (1995)
“The Cost of Union-Management Cooperation: Criminal Sanctions for Employer Business Entertainment of Union Officials,” Labor Law Journal, December 1997, pp. 726-37 (co-authored with Christopher S. Miller, Ph.D.)
Other Distinctions
Ranked in Chambers and Partners’ 2010 edition of Chambers USA as an Up and Coming attorney in Labor & Employment Georgia
Selected as a Georgia Rising Star in Employment Litigation by Law & Politics and Atlanta Magazine (2005, 2007 and 2009)
Work Experience
Partner, Troutman Sanders LLP, 2004-present
Associate, Troutman Sanders LLP, 1996-2003