Evan W. Jones

At Blasingame, Burch, Garrard & Ashley, P.C., Athens personal injury attorney Evan W. Jones focuses primarily on catastrophic injury cases, including those resulting from medical malpractice and nursing home negligence and/or abuse. Throughout his years in practice, he has successfully obtained substantial settlements and jury verdicts on behalf of his clients, totaling millions.

Evan grew up on St. Simons Island in Georgia. He attended the University of Georgia where he obtained his A.B. with general honors in 1988, followed by the University of Georgia Joseph Henry Lumpkin School of Law. Evan was a member of the UGA Honors Program and earned a four-year Army ROTC Scholarship. He graduated law school with his J.D. in 1991 before going on to serve in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps where he gained valuable experience as a prosecutor in both military and federal courts. In the JACG, he served as trial counsel and as a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the 7^th Infantry Division (Light) in Monterey, California. He also served as Trial Counsel for the 3/325^th Airborne Battalion Combat Team (ABCT) and the SETAF (Airborne) Brigade which later became the 173rd Airborne at Caserma Ederle.

For a number of years, he served on the defense side of personal injury claims, representing hospitals, nursing homes, and physicians in cases involving medical malpractice claims. After defending these individuals and entities from 1995 to 2003, Evan ultimately decided to switch his practice to plaintiffs’ representation and litigation. Now, he works on behalf of injured victims who were harmed by medical institutions and professionals. His experience on both sides allows him a greater knowledge of how the process works and what tactics the defense will likely employ. He uses this knowledge to better fight for his clients’ rights.

Alongside co-counsel, Evan was instrumental in obtaining one of the largest nursing home arbitration verdicts in Georgia to this day. He also served as the lead counsel in Peterson v. Reeves, 315 Ga. App. 370 (2012), cert denied, 727 S.E. 2d 171. The case became a defining example of psychiatrists’ duties to treat mentally ill patients under the standard of care in a voluntary outpatient setting and was even cited in courts throughout the nation, as well as in scholarly articles regarding the rights of the mentally ill. Evan has resolved multiple 7-figure medical malpractice settlements across the State of Georgia, one 8-figure settlement, and a $3.2 million confidential elder abuse settlement.

Evan has tried or settled over $150 million in cases.

Some of Evan’s notable cases include:

• One of the largest 7-figure confidential settlements in Georgia against a nursing home chain for the wrongful death of a resident.
• A confidential eight-figure settlement for an oral surgery death.
• A confidential seven-figure settlement for the wrongful death of an elderly patient who was discharged from a large hospital with the wrong medications.
• A confidential seven-figure settlement for the wrongful death of a patient due to delayed diagnosis and treatment of a heart attack.
• A confidential seven-figure settlement for the death of a nursing home resident who was pulled off the bed and suffered a subdural hematoma.
• A confidential seven-figure settlement for the delayed diagnosis of a gastrointestinal bleed and colonic hemorrhage that resulted in the death of a patient.
• A confidential seven-figure settlement for a diabetes-related death.
• A confidential seven-figure settlement for the death of a man who was mistakenly discharged from a hospital despite an abnormal cardiac stress test. Following his discharge, EMS found him unresponsive in his car and he died from a heart attack in the emergency room. 
• A confidential seven-figure settlement against a hospital regarding a retained foreign object.
• A confidential seven-figure settlement regarding a patient who bled out after hip surgery.
• A confidential, high-end, six-figure settlement for the family of a personal care resident who died from hypothermia after he eloped from the facility.
• A confidential six-figure settlement for the family of a nursing home resident who died of sepsis when a nursing home failed to properly treat his dehydration, malnutrition, and bedsores.
• A confidential six-figure settlement for failure to properly treat or recognize the significant change in condition of a nursing and rehab center patient, which led to septic shock and her untimely death.
• A confidential six-figure settlement for the failure of a nursing and rehab center to properly diagnose, identify, and treat multiple bedsores that led to the death of a patient.

Evan’s exceptional work has earned him recognition in numerous national publications and accolades from multiple prestigious organizations, including Georgia Super Lawyers®. He is AV® Rated by Martindale-Hubbell®, the highest peer review rating available, and is listed in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers. Additionally, he is a member of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, the Southern Trial Lawyers Association, and the American Association of Justice. Evan has also been included in the “Who’s Who” list in American Law and is frequently invited to give presentations on wrongful death cases and medical malpractice in legal seminars. He was recognized in 2019 as one of America’s Top 100 High Stakes Litigators^®  in Georgia.

Evan is on the SWAT Ministries Board of Directors.

He sat on the Board of Directors of ACC SANE, Inc. from 2018-2024. The Athens-Clarke County Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners Program provides victim forensic examinations and evidence collection, court testimony, and community prevention education related to rape, sexual and physical assault.

Along with his wife, to whom he has been married for over 32 years, Evan has three children. His oldest son was a member of the UGA Baseball Team, as well as a three-time member of the SEC Academic Honor Roll before being drafted by the New York Yankees as a pitcher. He is currently a wealth management consultant. Evan’s daughter, a UGA graduate, is a wealth management consultant working at the same firm as his oldest son. His youngest son graduated from UGA with a finance degree and is currently enrolled in the Master of Accountancy Program at UGA.