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Fred DeVore is a civil litigator, who focuses his practice in the areas of catastrophic injury, wrongful death, construction litigation, insurance bad faith, contract litigation and condemnation law...
Fred DeVore is a civil litigator, who focuses his practice in the areas of catastrophic injury, wrongful death, construction litigation, insurance bad faith, contract litigation and condemnation law...
Fred DeVore is a civil litigator, who focuses his practice in the areas of catastrophic injury, wrongful death, construction litigation, insurance bad faith, contract litigation and condemnation law. Throughout his distinguished career, he has served as lead counsel on numerous cases and has handled more than 40 appellate matters in the North Carolina Court of Appeals, North Carolina Supreme Court and the United States Fourth Circuit and is licensed to practice before the United States Supreme Court.
Fred has tried or settled many matters in excess of $1 million and in 2006, he and his partner, Troy Stafford, obtained a settlement of over $10 million for an injured client. In 2013, Fred obtained a $ 1.5 million insurance bad faith verdict, and together with another firm, received a verdict of $9 million in a wrongful death action involving three deaths. In 2017, Fred, Will DeVore and Derek Adler settled a personal injury matter for over $7 million dollars.*
A national publication known as “Best Lawyers in America” named Fred as “2018 Lawyer of the Year – Personal Injury” which is an honor based entirely on the vote of his peers. In 2015, Charlotte Magazine named identified Fred as one of the top 100 trial attorneys in North Carolina and in the top 25 in Charlotte.
Additionally, Fred is frequent lecturer to various bar and judicial organizations, focusing on issues ranging from trial tactics to insurance bad faith. He has authored articles in both the Wake Forest Law Review and the South Carolina Law Review and Trial Briefs.
He is President of the Executive Board of the Mecklenburg County Bar. He is formerly the chairman of the Mecklenburg County Grievance Committee and he currently serves on the Disciplinary Hearing Commission for the State Bar.
*These settlement and verdicts are based upon the facts and liability of those particular cases and should not be considered as an indication of the value of any potential case.
About Fred W. DeVore III
Practice Areas
- Wrongful Death
- Construction Law
- Personal Injury
- Insurance Bad Faith
- Condemnation
- Premises Liability
- Eminent Domain
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- North Carolina, 1982
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of North Carolina, 1982
- U.S. District Court Middle District of North Carolina, 1982
- U.S. District Court Western District of North Carolina, 1982
- U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit, 1985
- U.S. Supreme Court, 1995
Other Affiliations
- North Carolina State Bar, 1982 - Present
- North Carolina State Bar Association, 1982 - Present
- North Carolina Advocates for Justice (Member)
- Mecklenburg County Bar (Vice-President)
- Disciplinary Hearing Commission for the NC State Bar (Member)
- Mecklenburg County Bar, President
Education
- Wake Forest University School of Law, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 1982
J.D. - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1977
M.A. - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1975
B.A.
Classes and Seminars
- Ethics (for New Bar Inductees), 2013
- NC/SC Construction Defects Seminar, Hi Tech on a Low Budget , Asheville, NC, 2013
- Use of Discovery in Litigation, NC Bar Association Annual Conference, Litigation Section, 2011
Achievements
Other Sources of Feedback About Fred W. DeVore III
Included on the 2023 North Carolina list
Past Lists
- 2022 North Carolina Super Lawyers list
- 2021 North Carolina Super Lawyers list
- 2020 North Carolina Super Lawyers list
- 2019 North Carolina Super Lawyers list
- 2018 North Carolina Super Lawyers list
- 2017 North Carolina Super Lawyers list
- 2016 North Carolina Super Lawyers list
- 2015 North Carolina Super Lawyers list
- 2014 North Carolina Super Lawyers list
- 2013 North Carolina Super Lawyers list
- 2012 North Carolina Super Lawyers list
- 2011 North Carolina Super Lawyers list
- 2010 North Carolina Super Lawyers list
- 2009 North Carolina Super Lawyers list
- 2008 North Carolina Super Lawyers list
- 2007 North Carolina Super Lawyers list
Honors
- Super Lawyers 2007-2014
- Best Lawyers in America
- Honors: Order of the Barristers
- Honors: Chief Justice Moot Court Board
- America’s Top 100 Personal Injury Attorneys®
- 2018 Lawyer of the Year – Personal Injury, Best Lawyers in America
- Identified as one of the top 100 trial attorneys in North Carolina
- Identified in the top 25 in Charlotte
- Business North Carolina Legal Elite 2021
- Voted the 2022 "Lawyer of the Year" for Construction Law in Charlotte by The Best Lawyers In America
Office Information
Address
438 Queens Road Charlotte, NC 28207
Phone
Fax
- 704-332-2825
Websites
Publication
Articles
- When Bad Houses Make Good Cases, Trial Magazine, Journal of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, November, 2002
- Construction Lien Law in North Carolina, Seminar Manual for Lorman Education Services, 2000
- Construction Lien Law in North Carolina, Seminar Manual for Lorman Education Services, 1999
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