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Eviana (Englert) Woodlinn


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Meet Eviana, decisive litigator and steady advocate for families.

Eviana (Englert) Woodlinn

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207 228-7176 direct
207 774-1200 main
207 774-1127 facsimile

100 Middle Street
PO Box 9729
Portland, ME 04104-5029

AWARDS
  • Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America 2025 (Ranked since 2021)
    Commercial Litigation
  • Katahdin Counsel Pro Bono Honoree, 2023
  • The Best Lawyers in America® 2023 “Ones to Watch”
    Commercial Litigation
  • The Best Lawyers in America® 2022 “Ones to Watch”
    Commercial Litigation
  • The Best Lawyers in America® 2021 “Ones to Watch”
    Commercial Litigation
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Here’s why you’ll enjoy working with them.

Using their personal experience building a family and their experience handling complex litigation and dispute resolution matters, Evi helps clients successfully navigate the legal process of building a family.

Forming a family through assisted reproductive technology, second-parent adoption, or surrogacy involves many complex issues. To support their clients through this sometimes arduous and challenging process, Evi:

  • Educates clients about their rights and responsibilities related to their individual reproductive journey, including the preparation of legal documents to successfully reflect that journey.
  • Guides clients in making appropriate decisions about their family building options, and advises LGBTQ+ clients on their unique paths to parenthood.
  • Represents intended parents and gamete donors in the area of egg donation, sperm donation, embryo donation, co-parent adoption and parentage proceedings.
  • Utilizes expertise as a litigator to represent and advise clients in arising-from and related litigation.
  • Works directly with colleagues who are experts in estate planning and legislative work to provide the full suite of services that their family planning clients require.

No matter the challenge that their clients face in beginning their journey as parents, Evi approaches this work with empathy, precision, and collaboration with all parties involved.

In their commercial litigation practice, Evi maintains a diverse practice, including environmental and mass tort litigation, intellectual property and patent litigation, multi-agency federal investigations, Title IX investigations, labor and employment litigation, food and beverage matters, and federal civil rights actions. Evi is well versed in all phases of discovery and trial preparation, including written discovery, motion practice, settlement negotiations, taking and defending depositions, direct and cross-examination of witnesses, opening and closing arguments, and pre-trial and post-trial briefing.

Prior to joining Bernstein Shur, Evi spent years as an Assistant Corporation Counsel representing the City of New York in federal court, defending the City and its employees in federal civil rights lawsuits.

But that’s not all. Evi is also very knowledgeable about:

  • Mass tort and environmental litigation
  • Food and beverage litigation
  • Intellectual property and patent litigation
  • Federal agency investigations
  • Federal civil rights litigation
  • Lease and other real estate litigation, including commercial landlord-tenant disputes & evictions
  • Protection from Abuse and Harassment
  • Title IX investigations

In her former life, Evi was:

  • Law clerk for the Hon. Jeffrey L. Hjelm, Maine Supreme Judicial Court
  • Assistant Corporation Counsel, Special Federal Litigation Division, for the New York City Law Department
  • Judicial extern for the Hon. Geoffrey W. Crawford, United States District Court for the District of Vermont
  • Legal intern in the Juvenile Rights Practice of the Legal Aid Society
  • Director of Human Resources for Luke’s Lobster, a growing Maine-based restaurant company

When Evi isn’t working, she is…

Running, skiing, backpacking, or otherwise adventuring around Maine with their family.

Background

Education
JD, Vermont Law School, magna cum laude
BA, Mount Holyoke College

Admitted to practice
State of Maine
State of New York
United States District Court, District of Maine
United States District Court, Southern District of New York
United States District Court, Eastern District of New York

Memberships

Board of Directors, Birth Roots
Secretary, Executive Board, Partners for World Health
Former Treasurer, Board of Directors, The OUT Foundation – Portland Chapter
National LGBTQ+ Bar Association, FLI Member
LGBT Bar Association of New York
Maine State Bar Association

Publications

Contributor, ABA Recent Developments in Business and Corporate Litigation (2019-2023)