Devon Downs
Workplace Safety and Crisis Management
- Role
- Partner at Farley & Partners Llp
- Location
- Houston, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Devon Downs
A founding partner of Farley & Partners, Devon Downs is a Chambers-ranked workplace safety attorney in the United States. Devon\'s practice is national in scope. She works with energy companies, chemical manufacturers, and other organizations on a wide range of process safety and workplace safety matters. She has played lead roles in the responses to major industrial incidents and often is her client’s point of contact with agencies such as the US Chemical Safety Board (CSB), the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). She directs the legal team and subject matter experts coordinating evidence control, root cause analysis, witness interviews, and document production. She then represents clients in subsequent enforcement.Devon also counsels clients on day-to-day workplace safety compliance and has extensive experience in California regulations. Devon is well known to inspectors and managers for the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) having advised employers in connection with over forty workplace inspections carried out by DOSH.Devon conducts privileged audits determining PSM/RMP applicability to operating unit boundaries and workplace safety compliance. She also advises employers on organizational safety culture, including the safety culture assessments required by California’s new Process Safety Management for Petroleum Refineries (California Code of Regulations, Title 8, Section 5189.1) as well as Industrial Safety Ordinances in Contra Costa County and the City of Benicia.Devon served on the Board of Directors for the Association of Women Attorneys Foundation (AWAF). Devon shares the objective of this nonprofit organization to advance women in law, through scholarships and fellowships to outstanding Houston-area law students. She also is a Life Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation. Attorney Advertising. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
Experience
Partner
Jun 2019 — Present
Education
University of California, College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings)
Doctor of Law (J.D.)
2008 — 2011
Occidental College
BA, Diplomacy and World Affairs
2004 — 2008
The University of Edinburgh
Independent study abroad
2006 — 2007
Skills
- Lexis
- Civil Litigation
- Trials
- Arbitration
- Legal Writing
- Litigation
- Westlaw
- Commercial Litigation
- Legal Research
- Employment Law
- Corporate Law
- Appeals
- Mediation
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