An experienced first-chair litigator, Jake Evans has litigated complex, high-stakes cases across practice areas in federal and state courts throughout the United States. Clients trust Jake with their most challenging matters and depend on Jake’s creative approaches and precise execution to pursue positive outcomes in the face of daunting circumstances.

Jake Evans’ litigation practice focuses on class actions, disputes involving breach of contract and fiduciary duties, residential and commercial real estate (including wrongful foreclosures, partitions, quiet title actions, and commercial leases), restrictive covenants involving non-compete, non-solicitation, and confidentiality provisions, business dissolutions, derivative corporate claims, note defaults and workouts and intellectual property, including patents, copyrights and trademarks. Thriving under pressure, Jake has served as lead counsel in numerous high-profile cases, including those appearing before the Supreme Court of the United States, entailing national media coverage and making Georgia history.

Having led Georgia’s State Ethics Commission and being intimately involved with government at all levels, Jake has a flourishing government practice. Jake represents companies and individuals responding to government investigations by state Attorney General Offices, U.S. Attorney’s Offices, the DOJ and other state and federal agencies, including the Federal Trade Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission. He also represents companies and individuals before Georgia state and local government agencies, including licensing boards, state commissions and procurement agencies, and has considerable experience with bid protests. Jake oversees campaign finance matters, including candidate and independent expenditure committee/PAC filings and responds to campaign finance complaints at the state and federal level.

A strategist at his core, Jake also serves as outside general counsel to numerous companies, large and small, helping them navigate thorny legal problems. Jake has overseen large mergers and acquisitions, agreement drafting and negotiations, economic development transactions, international trade investigations and varying regulatory compliance matters.

Jonathan Hawkins is a business lawyer for lawyers. He helps attorneys and law firm owners identify, understand, and navigate the legal, business, and ethics-related issues that stem from running a law practice. More specifically, he assists lawyers and law firms in starting law firms, law firm structuring, partnership agreements, lateral moves, separation agreements, law firm dissolutions, health crisis planning, and succession planning.

Raj Shah is the Global Head of Public Sector & Healthcare Compliance at McKinsey & Company. He is responsible for developing and executing the strategic vision for McKinsey's Global Ethics and Compliance Program, leading efforts to identify and mitigate compliance risk and further embed the company's values. Raj leads a large and growing global team of compliance professionals who guide McKinsey's 10,000 colleagues who interact with public sector and healthcare clients to lead with integrity.  

Prior to joining McKinsey, Raj was Managing Counsel of Advice at MagMutual Insurance Company and had responsibility for leading risk management education and corporate compliance training to MagMutual's 30,000 physician policyholders focusing on regulatory compliance, cybersecurity compliance, employment law and fiduciary liability matters. Prior to MagMutual, Raj was in private practice for nearly a decade where he counseled U.S. healthcare providers on a wide range of regulatory and compliance matters.He served as chair of the YLD State Bar of Georgia Ethics & Professionalism Committee and on the Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism. 

Raj is a Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional (CCEP) and holds specialty certifications in Healthcare Compliance (CHC), Healthcare Privacy Compliance (CHPC), Healthcare Research Compliance (CHRC), and Information Privacy Professional (CIPP). He has published over 100 articles on healthcare compliance and regularly presents at conferences on best practices in healthcare compliance. He has been recognized as a "Rising Star" by Super Lawyers magazine, a "Legal Elite" by Georgia Trend magazine, as well as Daily Report's "On the Rise."

He is a graduate of LEAD Atlanta, Leadership Georgia, Atlanta Regional Commission Regional Leadership Institute and serves on the Board of the Piedmont Park Conservancy.

Raj is a proud "triple dawg" and obtained his undergraduate, masters, and law degree from the University of Georgia.