Evia Law

Firm overview. Evia Law PLC is a micro IP-litigation boutique headquartered in Bingham Farms, Michigan (metro Detroit), with an additional Birmingham, MI address and roughly five attorneys/staff per directory profiles. It does not appear on AmLaw or Chambers rankings, and no reliable revenue figures are publicly available; third-party directories (SignalHire, AeroLeads) describe a 1–10-person firm. The firm was founded by Steven C. Susser, and its litigation core — Susser and Jessica Fleetham — are both alumni of Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C., a Michigan IP firm. Note that an unrelated "Evia Law" in Eugene, Oregon practices civil litigation; the firm profiled here is the Michigan entity.

IP litigation specialty. Evia Law describes itself as handling patent, trademark, copyright, trade-secret, and contract litigation on a focused, cost-conscious platform (contingency, fixed-fee, and co-counsel arrangements). Practice-area data from litigation tracking profiles show concentrations in mechanical engineering/manufacturing and transportation/e-commerce, with secondary exposure in chemicals/biotech, software and communications. The firm's tracked case history is consistent with an automotive/electro-mechanical focus: the sole tracked appearance concerns an automotive parking-brake actuator patent asserted in the Eastern District of Michigan.

Side preference. Based on the authoritative case list, the firm has appeared exclusively on the plaintiff side (1 of 1 tracked matters), with both Fleetham and Susser serving as counsel. That single data point is too thin to establish a firm-wide orientation, but it is worth noting the tracked plaintiff was an operating company (Stoneridge), not an NPE/PAE, and Evia's PTAB activity (see below) is on the patent-owner side as well — suggesting a primarily plaintiff/patent-owner practice rather than an operating-company defense practice.

Notable cases. The tracked matter is Stoneridge Control Devices, Inc. v. ZF North America, Inc., et al., No. 2:22-cv-10289 (E.D. Mich.), in which Fleetham and Susser appeared for plaintiff Stoneridge on U.S. Patent No. 7,021,415 (electronic parking-brake actuator). The court denied ZF's pre-claim-construction indefiniteness dismissal, dismissed German parent ZF Friedrichshafen AG for lack of personal jurisdiction, and denied ZF's motion to stay pending IPR. The docket closed in November 2024; I could not verify any trial verdict or settlement terms, and Evia counsel withdrew from the case in August 2024, so no public outcome is attributable to the firm.

PTAB / IPR practice and key partners. Evia has a modest, patent-owner-side PTAB presence: Fleetham and Susser appeared as lead/back-up counsel for the patent owner in PGR2026-00030, and Fleetham previously served as back-up counsel for the patent owner in IPR2023-00273 (the same '415 patent) while at Carlson Gaskey. This is not a high-volume IPR practice on any public measure. Practice leaders are Steven C. Susser, founder and trial lawyer, and Jessica Fleetham (J.D., Michigan; engineering background), both patent litigators with roughly 11 and 26 years of experience respectively. Firm website content beyond the aggregator description was not directly retrievable in this search, so characterizations of its self-described positioning rest on secondary sources.