Sheehey Furlong & Behm P.C. is pleased to announce that attorney Devin McKnight has been elected as a Principal and Director of the firm effective January 1, 2023. Devin first joined the firm as an associate attorney in 2019, with a practice focused primarily on criminal and civil litigation. He has defended clients in matters involving trade secret appropriation, violation of employee non-competes, medical malpractice, and breach of contract. He has also defended clients in federal criminal court in complex conspiracy investigations involving drug sales and fraud.
McKnight graduated with honors from the George Washington University Law School in 2013. Upon graduating he completed a two-year clerkship with Vermont Supreme Court Justice Marilyn Skoglund, followed by a two-year clerkship with Magistrate Judge John Conroy in the United States District Court for the District of Vermont. McKnight is also a graduate of the Lake Champlain Chamber’s Leadership Program, and was selected to the New England Super Lawyers list in 2022 as a Rising Star.
“We couldn’t be more pleased to welcome Devin to the Sheehey partnership,” states Sheehey’s Managing Partner, Ian Carleton. “He has exactly the kind of creativity, tenacity, judgment, attention to detail, and most of all moral compass that we look for in new partners. In some respects, he was qualified to join the partnership from day one.”
