Andrew McDevitt, a 2010 graduate from UC Hastings College of the Law, joined Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger as an associate attorney in January of 2011. From 2008 to 2010, he worked as a law clerk for the firm.
While attending Hastings, Mr. McDevitt was a founding member and Executive Production Editor of the Hastings Science & Technology Law Journal. He was also a member of the Hastings Trial Team. Mr. McDevitt helped lead the team to a First Place finish in the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Mock Trial Competition and to the semi-finals in a competition sponsored by the California Association for Criminal Justice. During his final semester of law school, Mr. McDevitt served as a judicial extern to the Honorable A. James Robertson II of the San Francisco Superior Court.
Before attending Hastings, Mr. McDevitt graduated magna cum laude in mechanical engineering at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He received multiple academic honors, including the President's List, the Dean's List, invitation into Pi Tau Sigma and Tau Beta Pi engineering honor societies, and acceptance into the Golden Key International Honor Society. He was an active member of the Society of Automotive Engineers and American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Mr. McDevitt was the first student to design and build carbon fiber wheels for the university's automotive racing team—Formula SAE.
At the Walkup firm, Mr. McDevitt's mechanical engineering background provides him with special competence in the area of vehicle collisions and transportation related accident reconstruction. He has worked on a broad spectrum of personal injury and wrongful death cases, including numerous cases involving the negligence of MUNI employees and operators. Such MUNI negligence cases have included accidents where MUNI buses have hit (run over) pedestrians, cyclists, and/or other vehicles; accidents between MUNI trains; accidents where MUNI trains have hit pedestrians; and accidents where individuals have been injured while on or in MUNI facilities.
