William Devine, Member of Law Firm of Rainey Devine
William's background in business management and operations enables him to provide legal services in an array of legal areas, concentrated in Bankruptcy, Debtor's Rights, and civil litigation.
Prior to joining Rainey Legal Group, William was an associate attorney in the Intellectual Property practice group of Armstrong Teasdale, a nearly 300 attorney firm with offices throughout the country. During that time, William practiced exclusively in the area of patent prosecution in the electrical, computer science, and electro‑mechanical technology arts. William has drafted numerous patent applications and has successfully prosecuted and obtained multiple patents for such clients as General Electric, Washington University, and BHA Group. Other firm clients have included inventors from India, China, Scotland, England, and of course the United States.
While in law school, William worked for two years as a law clerk for a Las Vegas general practice attorney and gained experience in a multitude of practice areas, include civil litigation, family law, real estate, and self-insurance for worker’s compensation matters. William also managed the day-to-day operations of the attorney’s tax audit defense practice. Also, while in law school, William gained significant exposure to bankruptcy practice, while serving as a judicial extern to the Honorable Linda B. Riegle of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Nevada.
Prior to becoming an attorney, William was a technology consultant in the emerging Internet industry, and held various technical management and executive positions with multiple technology start-ups in and around Houston, Texas during the nineties. William uses his vast technology experience to improve the efficiency of his practice and client communication.
William remains an active participant in the UNLV/Boyd Alumni association, Clark County Bar Association New Lawyer’s Committee, and an annual speaker for the UNLV MBA New Ventures Management course speaking to the business aspects of intellectual property law. William is also an active tribal member of the Eastern Shawnee of Oklahoma, serving on the Tribe’s Constitutional Review Committee
Experience
Armstrong Teasdale, LLP, (Las Vegas, NV)
Associate - Intellectual Property Practice Group, 2008 - 2009
Intellectual Property Associate in large multi-jurisdictional law firm of over 275 attorneys in multiple states. Practiced exclusively in the area of patent prosecution in the electrical, computer science, and electro-mechanical technology arts. Drafted numerous patent applications, amendments, and response to Office Actions to the United States Patent & Trademark Office. Successfully prosecuted multiple patents for multinational corporate clients of the firm.
Kurth Law Office, (Las Vegas, NV)
Law Clerk, 2005 - 2008
Gained experience in a vast array of practice areas, including commercial litigation, family law, personal injury, creditor collections/judgment enforcement, bankruptcy, and landlord/tenant. Prepared legal pleadings including: complaints; bankruptcy adversary complaints; discovery requests, responses, and motions; temporary restraining orders; and preliminary injunctions. Managed day-to-day operations of the firm’s IRS tax audit defense cases for tax preparer clients.
United States Bankruptcy Court, (Las Vegas, NV)
Summer Internship, 2005 - 2005
Researched bankruptcy law, debtor and creditor related law, and wrote bench memos about default judgments, judgment renewals, fraudulent conveyances, and procedural summary judgments for The Honorable Judge Linda B. Riegle, Southern District of Nevada.
PG Technology, Inc., (League City, TX)
Senior Network Consultant, 2002 - 2004
Delivered onsite consulting services to previous Smart Guys’ clients and PG Technology’s clients. Designed, deployed, and maintained PG Technology’s DSL Internet access network, web & email servers, business clients’ networks and network security. Responsible for design and implementation of projects nearly tripling the company’s annual revenues during the first eighteen months.
Provis Broadband, (Houston, TX)
Director of Engineering, 2001 - 2001
Director of Engineering for start-up Competitive Local Exchange Carrier providing integrated data, voice & Internet services to small and medium sized businesses over private DSL circuits. Developed proof of concept network for first round of VC fund raising. Provis shutdown after loss of funding after 9/11/2001 and was subsequently sold to PG Technology in January 2002.
nXp Technologies, (Houston, TX)
Vice Presidnet of Engineering, 2000 - 2002
Vice President of Engineering for start-up Internet Access Content Management software company. Managed three full-time and part-time programmers developing the next version of our software. Shared overlapping contract management duties between iExalt.Net, nXp Technologies, and Provis Broadband, and continued support services until January 2002.
iExalt.Net, (Houston, TX)
Senior Network Consultant, 2000 - 2001
Senior network consultant to national dial-up Christian filtered Internet Service Provider using nXp Technology’s web filtering solution on a custom designed load balancing Linux based proxy server array I created specifically for iExalt.
Transwestern Properties Company, (Houston, TX)
Network Consultant, 1999 - 1999
Created network management system for IT staff to monitor and manage their 19 site network which I had designed and oversaw deployment of while at my previous position with BlueGate Systems.
Smart Guys, (Houston, TX)
Owner/Independent Consultant, 1999 - 2002
Created a customer base of business consulting clients to which I provided computer and network consulting services while successfully retaining the majority of clients for many years.
BlueGate Systems Corp., (Houston, TX)
Senior Systems Engineer, 1996 - 1999
Ground floor opportunity at systems integration firm. Tasked with directing the technical operations of a start-up business-class Internet Service Provider to provide Internet solutions and other network consulting services to professional organizations and firms. BlueGate now concentrates on deployment of HIPAA compliant secure encrypted data connections between medical practitioners and hospital organizations in and around Texas.
Education
William S. Boyd School of Law - University of Nevada Las Vegas, (Las Vegas, NV)
Juris Doctor, Law 2007
Graduation Scholarly paper: “Building Casinos Off the Reservation: How the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act §20 Affects Off-Reservation Gaming” Dean’s List - Spring 2007; President – Gaming Law Association – 2005 & 2006; Clark County Pro Bono Project – Bankruptcy & Collections; Clark County Legal Services – Outstanding Bankruptcy Student Award; Student Member – American Bankruptcy Institute, American Bar Association, and UNLV MBA Association. Tribal Member Scholarship Recipient - Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma – 2004 to 2007
University of Nevada Las Vegas, (Las Vegas, NV)
Masters of Business Administration (MBA), Business Administrationr 2007
Completed dual JD/MBA program in 2007.
Prairie View A&M University, (Prairie View, TX)
Bachelors, Electrical Engineering 1995
B.S. Electrical Engineering, received Dec. 1995 Minor in High Energy Particle Physics Major GPA 3.92/4.00 Eta Kappa Nu - Honors Member - National Electrical Engineering Honor Society.
