Donald Lawson Devries, Jr.

Professional Affiliations

•Maryland State Bar Association (Chair - Committee of Law Reform 2011 - 2013)
•International Academy of Trial Lawyers (2005 - Present)
•American College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL) (2000 - Present)
•Steering Committee, Chemical and Toxic Tort Special Litigation Group (2002)
•International Association of Defense Counsel (1985 - Present)
Vice Chairman, Medical Malpractice Committee for Newsletters (1989 - 1990)
Program Chairman (1990 - 1992)
Chairman, Medical Malpractice Committee (1992 - 1995)
Chairman, Defense Counsel Committee (1997 - 1999)
Executive Committee (1999 - 2002)
•International Society of Barristers (1998 - Present)
•American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) (1984 - Present)
Maryland member of National Executive Committee (1992 - 2004)
President of Maryland Chapter (1992 - 1995)
•Association of Defense Trial Attorneys (1993 - Present)
•American Inns of Court (1986 - 1992)
•AIDA - the International Insurance Law Society, U.S. Chapter (1994 - 2002)
•Practice Digest Editorial Board (1990 - 1992)
•The Defense Research Institute
•Committee on Uninsured Persons, Maryland Governor's Commission on Health Care Policy and Financing (1988 - 1990)
•American Bar Association
Vice-Chairman, Medicine and Law Committee of Torts and Insurance Practice (1982 - 1983, 1984 - 1985, 1985 - 1986, 1986 - 1987, 1987 - 1988, 1988 - 1989)
Chairman, Medicine and Law Committee of Torts and Insurance Practice Section of American Bar Association (1988 - 1989)
Forum Committee on Health Law of the ABA
Medicine and Law Committee, Medical Advisory Panel (1986 - 1987)
•Maryland Defense Counsel, Inc.
•Wednesday Law Club (1986 - Present)
•Maryland State Medical Society
•Joint Executive/Legislative Task Force on Medical Malpractice Insurance (1985, resulting in tort reform enacted by Maryland's legislature in 1986)
•District of Columbia Bar Association