Molly Shuttleworth Evans

Molly Evans is an attorney in the health law and non-profit and corporate law practice groups. Ms. Evans assists health care providers with regulatory, transactional, corporate compliance and risk management matters, with a particular interest in client counseling regarding professional liability and Federal Tort Claims Act compliance matters. In her health care practice, Ms. Evans counsels health care entities such as community health centers on contracting, regulatory compliance, fraud and abuse, patient privacy and confidentiality and risk management matters. Ms. Evans also advises clients on legal issues related to corporate transactions; including mergers & acquisitions, affiliations, and joint ventures.

Ms. Evans was employed as an associate attorney in the health law practice group of the law firm from 2002- 2006. In 2006, she became in-house counsel at a large, multi-site community health center in Washington, D.C. As in-house counsel, Ms. Evans had primary responsibility for identifying and managing the legal risk issues throughout the health center, as well as for providing legal advice in the areas of transactional and regulatory heath care, corporate compliance, physician practice activities, managed care contracting, non-profit governance and tax exemption issues, employment and risk management, including patient safety.

Education: 
  • Washington & Lee University School of Law, Lexington, VA, 2000, J.D.
  • Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, 1996, B.A. Major: Spanish/ Political Science
Honors/Awards: 
  • The Virginia Bar Association/ Young Lawyers Division Emerson G. Spies Award for an individual Division member for enthusiasm, loyalty and dedication in the work of the Association in 2004.
Professional Memberships: 
  • American Health Lawyers Association
  • District of Columbia Bar Association, Health Law Section, Member
  • Chair, Health Law Section, Virginia State Bar (2006-2007), Vice Chair (2005-2006)
Classes/Seminars Taught: 
  • Various training programs and seminars to health care professionals, national, state and local associations, and public agencies on health-related issues, including compliance with federal, state and local requirements; corporate compliance programs; governance; risk management and medical malpractice, including the Federal Tort Claims Act.
Published Works: 
  • Molly S. Evans, Issue Briefs, Bulletins, Advisories, and Manuals on Various Health-related Topics, (co-author), National Association of Community Health Centers & Health Resources & Services Administration, 2002-2006 and 2010- present.
  • Molly S. Evans, Collaboration Options for the Provision of Primary Care and Behavioral Health Care Services (co-author), Texas Association of Community Health Centers, 2004.
  • Molly S. Evans, The NACHC Fraud and Abuse Manual (co-author), National Association of Community Health Centers, 2004.
  • Molly S. Evans, Federally Qualified Health Centers: A Viable Alternative in the Current Crisis in Virginia Health Care? (M. Evans & M. Zakheim), The Virginia Health Lawyer, published by the Virginia State Bar, Health Law Section, 2003.
Past Employment: 
  • Unity Health Care, Inc., Vice President for Legal Affairs, 2006-2010
  • Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP, Associate, 2002-2006
  • Kaufman & Canoles, PC, Associate, 2000-2002