Practice Areas: Business Litigation, Environmental Litigation, Media & Advertising; view more
Licensed in Georgia since: 2003
Education: University of Georgia School of Law
Selected to Super Lawyers: 2019 - 2025 
Selected to Rising Stars: 2010 - 2012, 2014 - 2018 Details
Stacey Godfrey Evans is an experienced attorney with Stacey Evans Law, based in Atlanta, Georgia. She has been admitted to all the federal courts in Georgia and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. She handles complex business law matters, including issues pertaining to:
- Whistleblower/healthcare
- Defamation
- Commercial litigation
- Toxic torts
- False Claims Act
- Taxpayer fraud and education fraud
- Defense/government contracting fraud
- Protection from retaliation
- Environmental litigation
- Media and advertising litigation
- Employment and labor law
At the University of Georgia, Athens, Ms. Evans completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and political science. She proceeded to graduate cum laude from the University of Georgia (UGA) School of Law in 2003. She spent around eight years litigating securities and complex cases at a prominent law firm, where she also represented community bank directors and executives in internal investigations and other lawsuits.
Currently a Georgia state representative and on the committees of Appropriations, Judiciary and Retirement, Ms. Evans represents House District 57 and is serving her second term in The Georgia General Assembly. In addition, she takes an active role in the legal community and is on the Board of Directors for The Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power & Potential and the UGA School of Law Board of Visitors. She is also a master at the Joseph Henry Lumpkin Inn of Court.
Among the many wins Ms. Evans has secured for her clients is a $495 million settlement in a case against a major dialysis clinic chain; that was the largest nonintervened whistleblower case in the history of Medicare fraud cases. Owing to her remarkable client service and dedicated representation, she has been showered with acclaim and recognition across the state, including:
- Georgia Trend Magazine’s 40 Under 40 List (2015)
- Atlanta Business Chronicle’s List of Up and Comers: Under 40 and Rising: 50 of Atlanta’s Most Promising Young Stars (2004)
- Outstanding Atlanta (2008)
- University of Georgia’s 40 Under 40 List (2012)
- German Marshall Fund of the United States – Marshall Memorial Fellowship (2017)
Practice areas
Business Litigation, Environmental Litigation, Media and Advertising, Employment & Labor: EmployeeFocus areas
Communications and Media Law, Defamation, Employment Law - Employee, Labor Law, Libel, Non-Compete Agreements, Sexual Harassment, Slander, Trade Secret, Unions, Wage & Hour Laws, Whistleblower
- 30% Business Litigation
- 30% Environmental Litigation
- 30% Media and Advertising
- 10% Employment & Labor: Employee
First Admitted: 2003, Georgia
Professional Webpage: https://www.staceyevanslaw.com/stacey-evans/
- State Bar of Georgia
- Georgia Supreme Court
- Georgia Bar Association
- Georgia Court of Appeals
- Georgia Trial Lawyers Association
- Atlanta Bar Association
- United States District Courts for the Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts of Georgia
- United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- Georgia Bar Leadership Academy (2007)
- Georgia House of Representatives (2011-2017, 2021-present)
- Represented two whistleblowers in Medicare fraud case against major dialysis clinic chain that successfully settled for $495 million. This was the largest non-intervened whistleblower Medicare fraud case in history.
- Represented financial institutions and corporations in garnishment proceedings.
- Represented court reporting companies in state administrative investigations.
- Represented corporations and individuals in internal, SEC, and FDIC investigations.
- Represented corporations in breach of fiduciary duty cases.
- Represented municipal bond underwriter on fraud and negligent misrepresentation claims brought by bond insurer relating to an over $60 million revenue bond issue.
- Represented receiver in multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme.
- Represented Phoebe Putney Health Care System and Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital relating to claims by a former staff physician.
- Represented Esquire Deposition Services LLC in multi-state class actions dealing with billing practices.
- Represented Beth Holloway in litigation against the National Enquirer arising from media coverage of the disappearance of her daughter, Natalee Holloway.
- Represented state representative in litigation arising from political advertisements.
- Represented hospital executive in litigation arising from news coverage.
- Represented Perri “Pebbles” Reid in litigation arising from the VH-1 movie “Crazy, Sexy, Cool: The TLC Story.”
- Communities in Schools Marietta/Cobb County; Cobb County Library Foundation; Smyrna Public Safety Foundation (Chair)
- UGA School of Law Board of Visitors
- Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential, Board of Directors
- Super Lawyers Rising Stars List (consistently listed since 2010)
- Bleckley Inn of Court, Barrister, 2008-10
- Georgia Bar Association Committee for the Georgia High School Mock Trial Competition (Chair, 2009-10; First Vice Chair, 2008-09; Second Vice Chair, 2007-08; Regional Co-Coordinator, 2004-06)
- German Marshall Fund, Marshall Memorial Fellow (2017)
- University of Georgia’s 40 Under 40 List (2012)
- Outstanding Atlanta (2008)
- Atlanta Business Chronicle’s List of Up and Comers: Under 40 and Rising: 50 of Atlanta’s Most Promising Young Stars (2004)
- Georgia Trend’s 40 Under 40 List (2015)
- Fulton County Daily Report’s 40 Under 40 Rising Stars List (2015)
- University of Georgia, B.A., Economics and Political Science
- Healthcare Fraud/False Claims Act
Selections
- Super Lawyers: 2019 - 2025
- Rising Stars: 2010 - 2012, 2014 - 2018
