Vice President & Associate General Counsel, Amazon​

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Andrew DeVore joined Amazon as Vice President & AGC for Litigation in August of 2010 and took on leadership of the Litigation & Regulatory function in September of 2012. He oversees all of the company’s litigation and regulatory affairs, leading the Competition, Privacy, Labor & Employment, Government & Regulatory Litigation, Complex & Intellectual Property Litigation, Law Enforcement Relations, and Lit-Reg Operations teams. Andrew also helps to lead cross-functional external engagement work with the Competition, Competition Economics, Public Policy, and Public Relations teams, and he is particularly proud of having founded and served for many years as executive sponsor of the legal department’s Diversity Leadership Team. Prior to joining Amazon, Andrew founded and ran his own law firm, DeVore & DeMarco in New York focused on advice, investigations, and litigation relating to a wide range of intellectual property and new technology issues. Andrew was previously a litigation partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips and litigation boutique Parcher, Hayes & Snyder, and an Assistant US Attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where he co-founded the Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property unit. Andrew also worked at Debevoise & Plimpton and clerked for a US District Judge in the Eastern District of New York. He graduated with honors from New York University School of Law, and for many years taught the Computer and Internet Crimes seminar at Columbia Law School.