Legal Assistant: Roxanne Kogler - rkogler@dsvlaw.com
- Practice Areas
- Construction Law and Litigation
- Professional Malpractice Defense
- - Medical Malpractice
- - Architect and Engineer Malpractice
- General Civil Litigation including Complex Commercial Litigation
- Appeals
- Safety & Risk Management Including OSHA
- Education
- The Pennsylvania State University, B.S. Finance, high honors, 1995
- Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington, J.D., cum laude, 1998
- Bar Admissions
- Indiana Supreme Court, 1999
- United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, 2003
- United States District Court, Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana, 1999
- Pennsylvania Supreme Court, 1998
Sean T. Devenney is an attorney at Drewry Simmons Vornehm, LLP, where he practices Construction Law, Medical Malpractice Defense, and General Civil Litigation including Complex Commercial Litigation. Mr. Devenney earned his B.S., with high honors in Finance, from Pennsylvania State University, and his J.D., cum laude, from the Indiana University School of Law – Bloomington. Sean is admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania and Indiana.
Mr. Devenney is a member of several committees for the Indiana State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. During his career, Mr. Devenney has helped clients resolve a variety of large scale complex construction disputes involving issues including construction delay, large scale cost overruns, and design errors and omissions. Additionally, Mr. Devenney has experience representing physicians, dentists, hospitals and other medical professionals through the litigation process. Mr. Devenney has handled matters in both State and Federal trial and appellate courts.
- Additional Experience
- Law Clerk to United States Magistrate Judge Mary Pat Thynge, District of Delaware, 1998-1999
- Memberships
- Indianapolis Bar Association
- Indiana State Bar Association
- - Construction and Surety Law Section
- American Bar Association
- - Forum on the Construction Industry
- - Section of Litigation, Construction Litigation Committee, Co-Chair of Committee on Insurance, 2007-2011
- Design Build Institute of America, Great Lakes Chapter
- - Co-Chair of Programs Committee
- - Board Member
- Appointments and Awards
- OSHA Authorized Construction Trainer, 2010
- Honored as “Rising Star” in the Area of Construction Litigation 2009-2011 by Indiana Super Lawyers
- Graduate, Indianapolis Bar Leadership Series III
- - Steering Committee, 2006-2008
- Community Activities
- Big Brothers (2000-2007)
- Chaucie’s Place
- - Board of Directors (2011-2012)
- - Vice President 2012
- Heritage Place (2002-2009)
- - Board of Directors President 2006-2008
- - Board of Directors Treasurer 2005-2007
- Homeless Shelter Pro Bono Project, Volunteer 2005-present
- Presentations and Publications
- Co-Author, "Who Covers What?: General vs. Professional Liability Insurance in the Construction Setting," Indiana Civil Litigation Review, Fall 2009
- Primary Author, "Scheduling, Sequencing, Coordination: The AIA A201 v. ConsensusDOCS 200," Construct! Magazine of the ABA Section of Litigation, Construction Litigation Committee, Winter 2009
- Co-Author, "Is the Line Blurring Between General and Professional Liability" The Construction Lawyer, Journal of the ABA Forum on the Construction Industry, Spring, 2009
- Co-Author and Co-Presenter, "Is the Line Blurring Between General and Professional Liability?" ABA Forum on the Construction Industry, Mid-Winter Meeting, 2009
- Primary Author, "Indiana Construction Law", Vienna, VA : HLK Global Communications, Inc., 2008
- Primary Author, "ConsensusDocs: An Option for Construction Contracts", Indianapolis Business Journal, 10 Nov. 2008:24
- Co-Author, "Mutual Responsibility and the Allocation of Risk Among Parallel Prime Contractors", Construct! magazine of the ABA Section of Litigation, Construction Litigation Committee, Spring 2006
- Co-Author, "Rewriting Builder’s Risk Policy? – The Intersection of a Builder’s Risk Policy and Construction Project Contracts", Indiana Civil Litigation Review, Fall 2005