Wayne
Cartwright Beyer is a litigator, author,
presenter, and former administrative appeals judge. He has been lead counsel in
300 to 350 police misconduct and corrections cases, including many jury trials,
involving Fourth Amendment excessive force, false arrest, illegal search, fatal
shootings, positional asphyxia, cell suicide, pursuits, failure to render
medical assistance, failure to protect, First Amendment, malicious prosecution,
and wrongful conviction. As a member of the District of Columbia and New
Hampshire Bars, Attorney Beyer served as assistant corporation counsel, later
known as assistant attorney general, for the District of Columbia, representing
the Metropolitan Police Department and Department of Corrections, and before
that as outside counsel to New Hampshire’s Property and Liability Insurance
Trust, where he represented many of the State’s city and town police
departments, and half the county jails. He has presented on police misconduct
issues at national programs for Georgetown University Law Center, the Defense
Research Institute, American Bar Association, the Federal Judicial Center for
District and Magistrate Judges, and webinars for Lorman Education Services and
Clear Law Institute. He is the author of law review and magazine articles on
police misconduct, and a member of the Police Executive Research Forum,
International Association of Chiefs of Police, and National Sheriffs
Association. Attorney Beyer was an associate and partner at prominent New
Hampshire law firms; was chief of staff of the U.S. General Services
Administration; he rendered 750 final decisions on employment and labor issues
for the Executive Branch of the United States Government as a member and
administrative appeals judge, later as chairman and chief administrative
appeals judge of the U.S. Department of Labor Administrative Review Board, and
as a Presidential appointee and member of the Federal Labor Relations
Authority. He holds degrees from Dartmouth College, Harvard University, and
Georgetown University Law Center.
"Wayne
Beyer is one of the foremost experts in this country on the subject of police
misconduct. "
---Ted
Williams, attorney, news analyst, cable news contributor
"I’ve
worked with hundreds of attorneys throughout this country. Attorney Wayne Beyer
is at the top of the list of those attorneys with regard to his ethics,
professionalism, dedication to work, knowledge of the law, trial preparation
and presentation."
---Charles
J. Key, Charles J. Key Consulting
"Wayne
Beyer has an encyclopedic knowledge of
all facets of civil rights litigation. What separates him from the overwhelming
majority of other experts on the topic is that he doesn't just talk the talk.
He has walked the walk."
---Michael L. Middleton, retired LAPD
sergeant, civil rights investigator, industry consultant, and author of the
Civil Rights and Law Enforcement Manual for the Commonwealth of Virginia
"Wayne
Beyer is a 'complete package.' His
experience in police civil litigation is broad and deep. "
---Robert
E. Deso, litigator, former Deputy General Counsel for the D.C. Metropolitan
Police Department
"I’ve
had the pleasure of working with Wayne as a police practices expert. As a litigator he was passionate about his
cases, always well prepared."
---Lou
Reiter, Deputy Chief LAPD (retired) and police consultant