Fred DeVore is a native Charlottean. He graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a BA in Psychology in 1975 and received a Masters in Communication from UNC in 1977. After teaching in the College of Business at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte for three years, he attended Wake Forest Law School, where he graduated in 1982.

Fred practices civil litigation in the area of catastrophic injury, wrongful death, construction litigation, insurance bad faith, contract litigation and condemnation law. He has handled more than 40 appellate matters in the North Carolina Court of Appeals, North Carolina Supreme Court and the United States Fourth Circuit.

Fred has been published in the Wake Forest and South Carolina Law Reviews. He has also written featured articles in several magazines, including Trial Brief, which is published by the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers. He is a frequent lecturer on issues ranging from construction defects to insurance bad faith.

In 2008, Fred was selected as a Super Lawyer by a national organization that bestows the honor on only 5% of lawyers nationally.

Fred has tried or settled many matters in excess of a million dollars and in 2006, he and his partner, Troy Stafford, obtained a settlement of over ten million dollars for an injured client. In 2013 Fred obtained a 1.5 million dollar insurance bad faith verdict, and together with another firm, received a jury verdict of 6 million dollars in a wrongful death action.

Fred and his partner, Bill Acton, have practiced together for over 30 years. Bill has been certified by the state bar as a specialist in the area of workers compensation.

Fred is married to Amy DeVore and together they have six children. Fred’s daughter, Julie, lives in New York City where she works backstage in various Broadway productions. His youngest son, Stephen attends the University of Georgia. Mallory Hankins attends the University of South Carolina. Maggie Hankins is enrolled at UNC-Wilmington, and Emma Hankins attends Providence High School in Charlotte.

Fred's oldest child, Will DeVore, was in the inaugural class of Elon Law School and is an associate in the firm along with Derek Adler. Will and his wife, Jessica, have given Fred two grandchildren, Hartman and Grayson DeVore.
Fred is a member of Matthews United Methodist Church, where he has taught adult Sunday School for over 30 years.