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. A
ttorney 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.
Comments about Wayne Beyer:
"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
"As a litigator he was passionate about his
cases, always well prepared."
---Lou
Reiter, Deputy Chief LAPD (retired) and police consultant