Our city’s legal profession lost a devoted bar member on Dec. 31, 2019. Evan Harris Pontz, a longtime partner in Troutman Sanders’ labor and employment practice, died at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore at age 49 of complications from a double lung transplant. 

Evan practiced law at Troutman for his entire professional career. Having grown up in Philadelphia, after graduating from Lower Merion High School in 1988, Evan came to Atlanta to earn his bachelor’s degree from Emory University in 1992. He went on to earn a master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his law degree with honors from the University of North Carolina, before coming to practice law with Troutman Sanders in 1996.