Evan Shenkman

Evan Shenkman is a member of Fisher Phillips’ Executive Leadership Team and leads the firm’s Knowledge Management, Innovation, and Library functions. Constantly at the forefront of change in the legal profession, Evan’s team won the ALM/Law.com’s 2024 Innovations In KM Award, and Evan won the 2021 International Legal Technology Association’s "Innovative Professional of the Year Award," was named to the 2021 Fastcase 50 List, recognizing “50 of the smartest, most courageous, innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders in the law,” and he received Litera’s 2020 Legal Innovator of the Year Award, recognizing his team’s numerous innovations during the coronavirus pandemic. At Fisher Phillips, Evan’s responsibilities include harnessing the power of A.I. and data analytics to help make the practice of law more efficient and predictable for our attorneys and clients; creating internal and client-facing collaborative tools; and introducing innovative technologies and approaches to help firm attorneys and clients thrive in the modern workplace. Before entering the KM field in 2011, Evan was a labor and employment litigator for nearly a decade.

Outside of work, Evan frequently writes and presents on KM and Legal Innovation topics, and has been featured on NPR’s Marketplace, The American Lawyer, the ABA Journal, Law.com, the AALL Spectrum, The AI Tool Report podcast, The Modern Lawyer Podcast, LiteraTV, and the Reinventing Professionals podcast, among others.