Evan Lynn Schwab is an American attorney who served as law clerk to Justice William O. Douglas of the Supreme Court of the United States during the 1963 Term.
with Order of the Coif honors in 1963 from the University of Washington School of Law, where he was the Comment Editor of the Washington Law Review.
Returning to Seattle in 1964, he entered private practice at Bogle & Gates, and after its collapse became a partner at Dorsey & Whitney.
[5] In 1967, Schwab argued the case of Mempa v. Rhay before the U.S. Supreme Court, winning a unanimous opinion written by Justice Thurgood Marshall that a revocation of parole proceeding triggers the right to counsel.
[6] In 1971, Schwab served as Special Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for the King County Grand Jury Investigation of police payoffs led by Prosecutor Chris Bayley and Judge Stanley C.