About Devin
Devin practices in the firm’s Commercial Litigation group and has litigated many types of commercial matters, ranging from contract disputes and business torts to pricing and antitrust matters. Devin also represents employers, focusing on labor & employment litigation and advice, collective bargaining matters and employee benefit and ERISA litigation. His clients include manufacturers, service providers, banks and insurance companies. Devin, an undergraduate German and political science major who studied in Germany and then worked in Belgium prior to law school, has also developed a niche advising foreign-owned businesses on litigation in American courts and on American labor laws.
Representative Experience
- Represented numerous retailers in state and federal litigation over the pricing of motor fuel at the wholesale and retail levels
- Assisted in the successful defense of an excess insurer on bad faith claims both at trial and on appeal
- Successfully argued before Alabama circuit courts and the Alabama Supreme Court to compel the arbitration of commercial disputes
- Performed comprehensive review of collective bargaining agreements and ERISA plans to advise clients regarding changes to benefits provided to employees and retirees
- Obtained court orders compelling opposing parties in commercial disputes to produce electronically-stored information, including thousands of e-mails and electronic records of sales transactions
Memberships
- Alabama-Germany Partnership, Board of Directors
Recent Speaking Engagements
- “Overview of State Price Discrimination Statutes,” ABA Antitrust Section, Pricing Conduct Committee, Telephonic Town Hall, June 2011 (co-presenter Mark Lawson)
- “Recent Amendments to the Federal and Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure,” Birmingham Legal Secretaries Association, March 2010
- “Americans with Disabilities Act: A New Law for the New Year,” Alabama-Germany Partnership, Human Resource Summit, February 2009
Devin enjoys writing and served as executive editor of the Virginia Journal of International Law during law school. He continues to write, authoring articles related to the areas of law in which he practices.
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What was your first job?
After college, I worked as a legal assistant at a law firm … in Belgium.
What advice would you give to a young student in law school?
Enjoy! This is the only time that you will be asked what the facts and holding were in A.A. Poultry Farms, Inc. v. Rose Acre Farms, Inc., without having to explain how the holding applies to your case and your client. Only law students and legislators get asked what the law should be, not what it is.