Evan Atwood

About Evan Atwood

Evan Atwood helps businesses in tightly regulated industries work within the rules that govern them, with files that run from nuclear energy to pharmaceuticals, medical devices, food and cosmetics. Evan also has a lot of experience on the practical side: reporting to regulators, product recalls, and disputes between companies.

Evan is counsel at Gowling WLG in Toronto. A graduate of the University of Toronto, with both a BA and an LLB from there, Evan was called to the Ontario bar in 1997. Back in 2016 Evan was a senior associate in the same Toronto office, focused on consumer and healthcare privacy law.

Evan's work also covers how information is regulated. Evan has made and answered access to information requests, reviewed the policies of nuclear and healthcare organizations and audited how they handle information, and looked at how data passes between companies, manufacturers and government bodies, both in Canada and in other countries.

Privacy has shown up in Evan's writing and in an interview too. A 2016 article looked at a January 2016 Ontario Superior Court judgment on privacy-related common-law torts. That same year, Evan and Gowling WLG partner Dr. Alan West were interviewed for an Inside Reproductive Health piece on what Canadian fertility centres should know about the law and digital media, and Evan cautioned that implied consent has its limits: content a patient shares can't simply be reused somewhere else.