Devin Theriot-Orr
Devin T. Theriot-Orr graduated with high honors from the University of Washington School of Law in 2003 and joined the law firm of Edwards Sieh Smith & Goodfriend where he practiced complex, appellate litigation in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Washington State Supreme Court and the Washington Court of Appeals. In law school, Devin was a student in the immigration clinic where he represented clients before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the Seattle Immigration Court. Following graduation, Devin continued his pro bono publico service with Northwest Immigrant Rights Project where he obtained relief for an asylum client before the Ninth Circuit and helped immigrant survivors of domestic violence obtain legal status in the United States. Devin spent two years living and working in South Asia where, as the Director of the Rule of Law Project in Lahore, Pakistan, he organized lawyers and law students in response to then-President Pervez Musharraf's coup d'etat in November 2007. Devin joined Gibbs Houston Pauw in September 2008.