Laura Johnson Evans

Clients call on Laura when they need a health care lawyer who is experienced in the everyday, operational aspects of the industry.

After litigating complex health care, toxic tort, and product liability cases for seven years, Laura served as in-house counsel for Roper St. Francis Healthcare, a Charleston-based health care system including two acute care hospitals and numerous ancillary facilities and physician practices. While in-house, she oversaw various corporate, operational, compliance, risk management, and medical staff matters and managed outside counsel. The health care system was self-insured, with a self-insured trust, which impacted the reserving and handling of the system’s litigation matters, all of which she oversaw.

After serving in-house, Laura re-entered private practice and dedicated herself to providing counsel to health care providers. Laura often acts as outside general counsel to hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, laboratory entities, physician practices, long-term care providers, post-acute care providers, independent and assisted living entities, in-home medical service entities, and specialty care facilities.

Laura is certified as a mediator/arbitrator in the State of South Carolina and a certified neutral by the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA).

Laura is dedicated to pro bono service, having led the Charleston County Bar’s response to the Mother Emanuel tragedy (which provided over 1500 hours of pro bono legal assistance to the victims’ families and survivors) for which she was named the South Carolina Bar Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year.

• AV ® Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
• Fellow, Furman University Riley Diversity Institute
• Best Lawyers in America, 2024
• Chambers USA, Healthcare (South Carolina), 2022 - 2024
• 2024 Influential Woman of Law, South Carolina Lawyers Weekly
• South Carolina Legal Elite, 2017, 2021, 2023, 2024
• South Carolina Lawyers Weekly Diversity & Inclusion Awards Honoree, 2021
• 2020 Woman Leader In The Law, National Law Journal/ALM
• South Carolina Bar Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year, 2016

• American College of Healthcare Executives
• South Carolina Bar - Health Care Division Executive Council
• Charleston County Bar (Executive Council, 2001 - 2002)
• American Health Lawyers Association
• Medical Group Management Association
• Defense Research Institute
• Society of Industry Leaders
• Ellevate Charleston (Executive Counsel)
• University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Women's Leadership Council
• CanCare, Charleston Chapter

Legal Practice Assistant

Jenna Wilson
(843) 973-6830
jmwilson@burr.com