Evan McIntyre represents clients in all facets of commercial litigation. Prior to joining Keker, Van Nest & Peters, Evan served as a law clerk for Judge Abdul Kallon of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. Evan earned his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and his B.S. in elementary education from the University of Alabama.
While in law school, Evan interned with the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania’s Federal Reentry Court. Evan also represented clients with the Defender Association of Philadelphia through Penn Law’s criminal defense clinic. Before law school, Evan taught English in South Korea as a Fulbright grantee and taught 4th grade in Charlotte, NC.
We represented three immigrant families intentionally separated by the Trump Administration in 2018. Asserting novel claims under the Federal Tort Claims Act, we vigorously pursued the case until the eve of trial, when the government agreed to the largest settlement out of any of the fifty similar cases filed nationwide.
In a landmark legal victory, three immigrant families have secured sizable settlements from the U.S. government for trauma suffered during family separations at the southern border in 2018. The settlement, announced in November 2024, represents the largest payout among dozens of similar cases nationwide stemming from the controversial Trump-era family separation policy. Read more