• Contact

  • 678.336.7186
  • fdevine@taylorenglish.com
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• Practice Areas

  • Civil Litigation
  • Business Litigation
  • Mediation
  • Product Liability
  • Medical Negligence
  • Personal Injury

• Education

  • E. Barret Prettymen graduate program in trial practice, Georgetown Law Center, Georgetown University, 1968
  • J.D., University of Virginia Law School, 1967
  • - Order of the Coif
  • - Omicron Delta Kappa
  • - National Moot Court Team
  • - Editorial Board, Virginia Law Review
  • B.A. in History with Honors, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1964
  • - Phi Beta Kappa

• Bar & Court Admissions

  • Georgia, Virginia, District of Columbia
  • Various state and federal courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States

• Memberships

  • Atlanta Bar Association
  • American Bar Association
  • Virginia State Bar (Inactive)
  • American Association for Justice, formerly Association of Trial Lawyers of America
  • Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, President, 1990-1991
  • Georgia Civil Justice Foundation, Board Member and former President
  • State Bar of Georgia, Board of Governors, 1988 to present
  • Joseph Henry Lumpkin American Inn of Court, Master Bencher
  • Attorneys Information Exchange Group, founding member and first president

Foy R. Devine

Foy R. Devine is a member of Taylor English’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice group. Since 1969, Mr. Devine has concentrated his practice in civil trial work, with a great majority of that work in the area of catastrophic personal injury and death cases arising out of product related injuries. Mr. Devine has also litigated a wide variety of business cases. He has frequently appeared in state and federal appellate courts. He is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell, and has been selected as a Georgia Super Lawyer for several years. Mr. Devine has served on the State Bar of Georgia Board of Governors since 1988. He has also served on various committees and chaired the Advisory Committee on Legislation. In 1990-1991, he was President of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association. As President, Mr. Devine was the principal driver behind a state wide program to increase public education regarding the civil justice system.

• Selected Representations

  • Representation of AirTran Airlines, formerly known as ValuJet, in recovering by confidential settlement during trial, business profits lost as a result of the crash near Miami from SabreTech and its parent company, Sabreliner Corporation
  • Recovery by verdict of $9.3 million from Ford Motor Company, including $8 million in punitive damages, for the burn injury and death of a teen-age girl who was riding as a passenger in a Mustang II automobile that was struck in the rear
  • Recovery by verdict of $5.6 million for an airline pilot who was paralyzed from the waist down as a result of negligent anesthesia care during routine hernia surgery
  • Recovery by verdict of $4.5 million for a couple injured in a tractor-trailer incident near Brunswick, Georgia
  • Recovery of a multi-million dollar confidential settlement for a construction worker who was paralyzed from the waist down as a result of being forced off a building by a crane
  • Recovery of a multi-million dollar confidential settlement for a child with severe burns on her upper body and face while playing with a lighter with a faulty safety latch