Evan Janush

Evan M. Janush is the managing attorney of The Lanier Law Firm’s New York office. He oversees the firm’s pharmaceutical and product liability mass tort work, supervises business litigation handled out of New York and leads the firm’s employment litigation practice group. His clients include people harmed by drugs and medical devices and employees pursuing discrimination and whistleblower claims.

Janush has held leadership roles in major multidistrict litigation. On behalf of the Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee in the national opioid litigation, MDL 2804, he has overseen third-party discovery and helped direct the liability case against Johnson & Johnson and related companies. He was also named to the Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee in the federal MDL over claims that acetaminophen use during pregnancy is linked to autism and ADHD. He worked on Ernst v. Merck, the first Vioxx trial in the nation, and on two later Vioxx trials, and he was part of the pretrial team for 22 women who alleged that talc products caused their ovarian cancer.

Before joining Lanier, he practiced at Weitz & Luxenberg and at Jenkens & Gilchrist Parker Chapin. He earned his law degree in 1998 from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University, where he served on the law review and as Student Bar Association president, and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Connecticut in 1995. He is admitted in New York and Connecticut. Outside the office, he has advised the Ossining High School mock trial team and served on the board of Ossining MATTERS.