Andrew
Devine
Andy is a litigator who handles hard-to-resolve disputes with a strategic, practical, and tech-savvy approach.
Andy represents multinational corporations, manufacturers, construction owners and general contractors, banks, and investment companies in product liability, environmental, class and mass action, personal injury, commercial, construction, and investment matters in federal and state courts and arbitrations across the country.
He starts with the result a client is after, shapes an efficient and focused path to get there, and executes. Clients rely on him to manage complexity, including high-volume discovery, depositions, and expert practice, motion and appellate briefing, and removal and jurisdictional issues.
Andy brings particular depth to environmental disputes, including the defense of claims involving groundwater and the remediation of sites under CERCLA. He is also comfortable with the technology that defines modern litigation, using experience and e-discovery tools to surface the facts that matter.
Andy's experience includes:
- Represented a construction project owner in state and federal lawsuits seeking damages and injunctive relief relating to breach of construction agreement and alleged tort claims. Won a preliminary injunction hearing, obtained dismissal and summary judgment dismissing tort and certain contract claims, secured affirmance on appeal, and resolved the remaining claims on favorable terms.
- Represented a chemical company in a class action alleging that contamination from a remediated CERCLA site caused personal injuries to nearby residents under common law tort theories. Following removal to federal court, obtained complete dismissal and secured affirmance on appeal.
- Represented a group of potentially responsible parties that cooperated in the cleanup of a CERCLA site in a New York State court action brought by a neighboring landowner alleging that remedial operations damaged adjacent property. Obtained dismissal and secured affirmance on appeal.
- Represented a general contractor in a construction, breach of contract, and lien dispute with a surety and subcontractor. Obtained near-complete recovery through a favorable settlement reached before discovery began.
- Represented a financial services company in an investment suitability lawsuit filed by a customer of a former investment advisor. Obtained complete dismissal.
- Represented a financial services company in an investment suitability arbitration before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. Resolved the matter on favorable terms.
- Represented an insurer in ERISA disputes with an insured in federal court lawsuits. Obtained complete dismissal.
- Represented a petroleum wholesaler in payment disputes across the East Coast, achieving substantial recoveries from counterparties.
- State University of New York at Buffalo Law School, J.D., cum laude, 2012; Buffalo Law Review, Publications Editor
- Canisius College, B.S., 2005
- New York
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
- U.S. District Courts for the Eastern, Northern, Southern, and Western Districts of New York
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- Student Law Clerk, Honorable John T. Curtin, U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York, 2011-2012
- Selected for the Upstate New York Super Lawyers list, 2024-2025
- The Best Lawyers in America
- Named Upstate New York Super Lawyers Rising Star, 2015-2023
- 40 Under 40, Buffalo Business First, 2022
- Honoree of the New York State Bar Association Empire State Counsel Program for pro bono work, 2018
- Greater Buffalo Metropolitan Crime Stoppers, Inc., Board of Directors, Legal Counsel
- Leadership Buffalo Rising Leaders, Class of 2015
- FINRA Series 7, 24, 53, and 66 licenses, inactive