Partner Theane Evangelis Featured in The AmLaw Litigation Daily About the “Reverberating Impact” of Lawson-Grubhub Case

In the Media  |  April 11, 2025

The AmLaw Litigation Daily

In 2015, partners Theane Evangelis and Michele Maryott began their successful representation of Grubhub in a case where the plaintiff alleged that he was misclassified as an independent contractor instead of an employee, which would have entitled him to minimum wage and benefits. In 2018, a California federal court ruled in Grubhub’s favor, for which Theane and Michele were named Litigation Daily’s Litigators of the Week.

An article in The AmLaw Litigation Daily [PDF] marking the tenth anniversary of this bellwether case, examines how the “critical precedent” it set has forged a roadmap for litigating the status of app-based gig workers in the U.S. and launched a decade of gig economy litigation in California and beyond.