Evans C. Anyanwu, Esq.
Attorney, Evans C. Anyanwu earned his Bachelor of Arts degree with departmental honors from Wesleyan University in 2000. Four years later, in 2004, Anyanwu received his Juris Doctor from the Rutgers University law School’s Newark campus, where he was the Development Editor of the Rutgers Computer and Technology Law Journal and was awarded the West Publishing Group Outstanding Achievement Award upon graduation.
Anyanwu worked at a Newark, New Jersey law firm before establishing his own law practice in 2008. That same year, as a young attorney, Anyanwu argued the pro bono case, Gamble v. Connolly properties, which became a seminal published opinion interpreting New Jersey contracts of adhesion. He served as counsel on a number of high profile cases including the representation of a Turkish production company against a major U.S. broadcast network. His expertise in the area of law and technology, made Anyanwu the go-to commentator for entities like NPR on issues regarding the intersection of technology and law. In 2012, Anyanwu began his first stint in the public sector as Assistant Township Attorney for the Township of Irvington, New Jersey, and was later promoted to Township Attorney. Through the New Jersey Garden State Bar Association, Anyanwu has served on two New Jersey Supreme Court Committees: The CourtSmart Working Group, and The Supreme Court Special Committee on Telephonic and Electronic Search Warrants. Anyanwu has also served as Deputy Counsel to the Essex County, New Jersey Board of Commissioners.
In 2017, Anyanwu was appointed the Chief Municipal Prosecutor of the City of Newark, where he received notoriety for his battle with the transportation network companies Uber and Lyft on behalf of the City of Newark., which resulted in a $10 million dollars settlement. Anyanwu would later be appointed the City’s Community Development Director where he worked on initiatives such as the City’s mobile bike sharing initiatives, Newark Go, and the Homelessness prevention program, Making Housing Homes. Anyanwu also served as the initial project manager for the City’s transformational $110 million dollars Pedestrian Bridge initiative.