Evan Shanley

Evan Shanley is a shareholder at Gursky Wiens & Shanley whose practice focuses on workers’ compensation for injured employees and their families. He joined Gursky Law Associates in 2013 and became a shareholder in 2019. His work is connected to a firm whose broader practice represents unions and their members, but his attorney page identifies workers’ compensation as his personal focus. He assists clients facing the legal and financial consequences that can follow a workplace injury.

Evan earned a B.A. from Providence College in 2009, graduating magna cum laude, and a J.D. from the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University in 2012. During law school, he served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Law, Philosophy and Culture. His academic experience developed legal research, writing, and analytical skills that support workers’ compensation practice. He was admitted to the Rhode Island Supreme Court in 2012 and later returned to Warwick for his legal career.

Evan previously worked as an associate at Blake & Uhlig in Kansas City, Kansas, and as a law clerk at the Laborers’ International Union of North America in Washington, D.C. Those roles provided experience connected to organized labor before he joined his current firm. His present practice represents injured workers and their families in workers’ compensation matters, drawing on a professional background that includes labor-related legal work and a firm environment centered on the rights and interests of working people.

Evan Shanley maintains a focused workers’ compensation practice for employees and families dealing with workplace injuries. His education, law journal experience, prior union-side work, and current shareholder role provide a foundation for representing workers through compensation-related legal processes. His practice is distinct from a general employment-law practice and centers specifically on workplace injury claims. Within a labor-focused firm, he contributes experience shaped by earlier work with labor organizations and continued representation of people whose livelihoods are affected by work-related injuries.

Law Office Affiliations

• Shareholder, Gursky Wiens & Shanley Law
• Member, Rhode Island Bar Association

Licensed State

• Rhode Island

Education

• Columbus School of Law at Catholic University
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• Providence College
  Bachelor of Arts (BA) (Magna Cum Laude)

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