Evans, Jeremy
California Sports Lawyer | Founder & Managing Attorney
Jeremy M. Evans represents entertainment, media, and sports clients in contractual,
intellectual property, and dealmaking matters. His clients range from Fortune 500 companies
to entrepreneurs, athletes, entertainers, models, directors, television showrunners and film
producers, studios, writers, individuals and businesses in contractual, intellectual property,
formation, production, distribution, negotiation, and dealmaking matters.
Mr. Evans is an award-winning attorney and industry leader based in Los Angeles and
Newport Beach, California. He is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles
(UCLA) with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with an Emphasis in American Politics (BA
’05), Thomas Jefferson School of Law with a Juris Doctor (JD ’11), Pepperdine University Rick J.
Caruso School of Law with a Master of Laws in Entertainment, Media, and Sports Law (LLM
’18), and Pepperdine University George L. Graziadio School of Business and Management
with a Master of Business Administration in Entertainment, Media, and Sports Management
(MBA ’20).
Mr. Evans is host of the California Sports Lawyer® Podcast with Jeremy Evans on the Bleav
Network, which focuses on the latest topics and most interesting legal angles in
entertainment, media, and sports law.
Within the community, Mr. Evans serves as the 2021-2023 President of the California Lawyers
Association, one of the largest voluntary bar associations in the nation with over 100,000
members. He is also a member of the Board of Advisors for the Rose Bowl Legacy
Foundation, a centennial campaign for the Rose Bowl Stadium. He also serves as an advisor
to entrepreneurs in entertainment, media, and sports for the U.S. Small Business
Administration (SBA), and is a member of the faculty of law in the California State University,
Long Beach (CSULB) Graduate Program in Sports Management.
Mr. Evans currently serves as Senior Counsel at Klinedinst PC. Prior to opening California
Sports Lawyer® as the Chief Entrepreneur Officer (CEO), Founder & Managing Attorney,
Evans worked as a Graduate Law Clerk at the Superior Court of California, advising judicial
officers in civil and criminal law and motion matters. Prior to law school, he worked as the
associate director for corporate finance at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP. He has
also worked as a legislative aide and field representative in the California State Legislature
and continues to work on local and national campaigns.