Michael S. Rawlings

Counsel

Michael Rawlings has built a practice focused on commercial litigation as defense counsel but also in personal injury, premises liability, construction defect, and family law matters.

Prior to joining Hall & Evans, Mr. Rawlings defended numerous cases that involved injury and loss, including complex traumatic brain injuries, spinal injuries, psychological injuries, loss of earning capacity and lost wages, claims for future medical treatment and damages, loss of consortium, and more. Working on the insurance defense side and as legal counsel with personal injury cases and clients has provided Mr. Rawlings the ability to evaluate a case, assess realistic outcomes, and pursue that outcome through settlement negotiations, arbitrations, mediations, short trials, and jury trials. He is active in the local community, handling pro bono cases for the Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada. 

A Las Vegas native, Mr. Rawlings attended Bonanza High School and then earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English and Japanese from Utah State University. Before law school, he went to work as a third-party claims adjuster focused entirely on transportation. He investigated motor vehicle accidents alongside local law enforcement, the taxi authority, and was involved in accident reconstruction with local experts and experts across the country. He helped in the testing and implementation of data impact devices with several Las Vegas taxicab and limousine companies when the technology was new. Mr. Rawlings eventually became a claims manager, resolving hundreds of personal injury cases through settlements, arbitrations, mediation, and trials in Clark County. With this background and depth of experience, Mr. Rawlings decided to pursue his law degree, earning a J.D. from Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan.

Practice Areas

Bar Admissions

  • Nevada, 2013
  • U.S. District Court, District of Nevada

Location

Las Vegas Office

Education

JD: Thomas M. Cooley Law School, 2011
BA: Utah State University, 2009, English, Minor in Japanese

Contact

rawlingsm@hallevans.com

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  • Japanese

Evan M. Szilagyi

Associate

Evan Szilagyi’s practice focuses on civil litigation defense in Colorado. He primarily represents construction contractors, subcontractors, and insurers facing construction defect and general liability claims. 

Mr. Szilagyi earned his law degree from South Texas College of Law Houston along with certificates in Global Lawyering and Contract Negotiations and Drafting. While in law school, he was a Legal Intern with the Colorado State Public Defender’s Office, a Case Analysist for national case settlement administrator, and a Summer Associate at Hall & Evans. Mr. Szilagyi received his bachelor’s in government with a minor in business from the University of Texas at Austin.

Practice Areas

Bar Admissions

  • Colorado, 2026

Location

Denver Office

Education

JD: South Texas College of Law Houston, 2025
Certificates: Global Lawyering and Contract Negotiations and Drafting, South Texas College of Law Houston, 2025
BA: University of Texas at Austin, 2021, Government, Minor in Business

Contact

szilagyie@hallevans.com

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Career Distinctions & Honors
  • South Texas Presidential Fellow
  • Dean’s Merit Scholarship
  • Golden Key International Honor Society

E. Daniel Kidd

Counsel

Daniel Kidd has two decades of civil and business litigation experience in Nevada state and federal courts.  Mr. Kidd’s litigation practice includes the areas of personal injury, insurance defense, premises liability, product liability, and complex civil litigation. He is also experienced with contract disputes, real estate, including lender and servicer liability defense, wrongful foreclosure defense, and title disputes. 

Practice Areas

Bar Admissions

  • Nevada, 2006
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
  • U.S. District Court, District of Nevada

Location

Las Vegas Office

Education

JD: University of San Diego School of Law, 2006, magna cum laude
BA: Brigham Young University, 2003, Business Management, Minor in Philosophy, cum laude

Contact

kidde@hallevans.com

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Languages
  • Spanish

Cynthia A. Loehr

Senior Associate

Cynthia Ann Loehr has over 25 years of litigation and administrative law experience.  Ms. Loehr’s background includes employment law, insurance defense, commercial litigation, environmental and natural resources law, real estate, and regulatory matters.  She has represented clients across courts in New Mexico and Montana, and before administrative agencies such as the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission, the New Mexico Environment Department, the Oil Conservation Commission, and Commissioner for Public Lands. 

She advises clients on wide variety of environmental issues in the context of real estate purchases and sales, renewable energy developments, and contaminated site response/remediation.  Her commercial litigation experience includes breach of contract, open accounts, fraud and unfair practices matters.

Prior to her career as an attorney, Ms. Loehr spent 15 years as a senior scientist and project manager in environmental, geologic, and engineering projects, including many in support of the United States Department of Energy.

Location

Billings Office

Education

JD: University of New Mexico, 2000
MS: Montana State University, 1986, Statistics
MS: New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology, 1979, Geology
BS: Fort Lewis College, 1976, magna cum laude, Geology

Contact

loehrc@hallevans.com

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Career Distinctions & Honors

  • The Best Lawyers in America®, Natural Resources Law, 2024-2026

Jeana R. Lervick

Counsel

Jeana Lervick is a seasoned litigator who provides counseling and defense through every step of conflict prevention and resolution. Ms. Lervick focuses primarily on employment and health care law, from day-to-day operations to large-scale litigation.  She handles all aspects of employment management and defense, including contract negotiation and drafting, as well as appearing regularly in administrative proceedings before the Montana Human Rights Bureau. Ms. Lervick also has extensive experience in public entity defense and intellectual property, including both trademarks and patents, and routinely leads general litigation matters across all areas of the law.

Ms. Lervick began her career as a litigator in Chicago focusing on patents and trademarks for more than a decade. She returned to Montana to raise her family and became In-house Counsel for a Montana school district before serving as Chief of the Civil Department of Montana’s largest county. Prior to joining Hall & Evans, Ms. Lervick was Senior Counsel at a large litigation firm in Montana.

Practice Areas

Bar Admissions

  • Illinois, 2002
  • Montana, 2014
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
  • U.S. District Court, District of Montana
  • U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois

Location

Billings Office

Education

JD: DePaul University College of Law, 2002
BS: Montana State University, 1999, Directed Interdisciplinary Studies

Contact

lervickj@hallevans.com

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Professional Associations

  • Yellowstone County Bar Association

Articles & Publications // Presentations // Webinars

  • Speaker, “Trial Preparation for Montana Legal Assistants,” Half Moon Seminar, 2024

  • Speaker, “Montana Employment Law: Hiring, Firing, and Disciplining Employees,” NBI Seminar, 2023

Business & Community Service
  • Yellowstone Soccer Association, Vice President
Other Activities

  • Outside of work, Jeana is a coach and team mom for numerous youth athletic programs and can often be found cheering on her son with their Bernese Mountain Dog, Rosie, and rescue pup, Bandit.​

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