Lynne J. DeVenny is a senior legal assistant at Elliot Pishko Morgan P.A., who specializes in workers’ compensation, serious injury and wrongful death cases. She has an associate degree in Paralegal Technology from Davidson County Community College and a bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Salem College. She is a former adjunct paralegal instructor at Forsyth Technical Community College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She has lectured at North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers (NCATL) paralegal and attorney continuing education seminars; authored articles for NCATL’s Legal Assistant Division newsletter, Discovery; held several terms as Publications Chair and Membership Chair for NCATL’s Legal Assistant Division; and was a Site Coordinator for NCATL’s Wade Edwards High School Mock Trial Regional competition in Winston-Salem, North Carolina for many years.