As an associate in the Firm’s Immigration Group, Ms. O'Neill concentrates her practice in the area of employment-based immigration, including temporary and permanent visas, family-based immigration and naturalization.

Devin's areas of interest include: 

• Business, Immigration Law
•  International Human Rights Law
• Refugee/Asylum Law

Bar Admissions

• Massachusetts
• New York

Education

• J.D., University of Michigan Law School, 2002
• Masters of Public Health, International Health and Epidemiology, University of Michigan, School of Public Health, 1999
• B.A., Government/International Relations, Smith College, 1997

Noteworthy

• Student Funded Fellowship Grant for Summer Internships, University of Michigan, School of Public Health, 1999
• Mayo Foundation Scholarship, Smith College, 1993 - 1997
• Brooke Scholarship for the International Community, Smith College, 1996

Memberships

• Member, Massachusetts Bar Association
• Member, American Bar Association
• Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association
• Member, New York Bar Association

Professional Activities

• Freedom Network Training on Human Trafficking, Buffalo, NY, March 2005
• Volunteer Lawyers Project Pro-Bono Attorney at the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility, Batavia, NY, June 2004 - August 2005
• CLINIC Legal Advocacy Training, Long Island, NY, September - 2004
• Summer Associate Program Coordinator, 2007
• Member, Public Interest Law Group, Asylum and Refugee Law Project, International Law Group, 2000 - 2002; Volunteer, Freedom House (Shelter and Legal Provider for Immigrants), 2001
• Mentor to SUNY Buffalo Law and Anthropology Students, 2004 - 2005
• Monroe County Lawyers for Learning, 2005 - 2007

Publications

• Co-Author, "Clinical Malaria is Treated Promptly in a Region of Epidemic Transmission in Southwestern Uganda," Tropical Medicine and International Health, December 2001

Prior Experience

• Staff Attorney, Human Rights First, Washington, DC, July 2007 - September 2007
•  Immigration Associate, Harter Secrest & Emery, L.L.P., Rochester, NY, August 2005 - July 2007
• Staff Attorney, VIVE, Inc.: An Organization for World Refugees, Buffalo, NY, October 2003 - July 2005
• Legal Intern, U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Global Affairs, Washington, DC, May - August 2002
• Legal Intern, AIDS Law Project, Johannesburg, South Africa, September - December 2001
• Legal Intern, ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, New York, NY, May - July 2001
• Legal Research Assistant, War Crimes Research Office, Washington College of Law, Washington, DC, January - March 2000
• Project Manager/Survey Specialist, MACRO International, Washington, DC, 1999 - 2000
• Independent Researcher, Independent Research Project in Kabale, Uganda, June - August 1998
•  Legislative Intern, Amnesty International Legislative Office Headquarters, Washington, DC, June - August 1997
• Research Intern, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, June - August 1996