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Mr. Dyer, the firm’s managing partner, has prosecuted state and federal class action lawsuits for more than thirty years, focusing on shareholder and consumer class action litigation. He has broad trial experience in various state and federal courts, having tried more than twenty-five cases to a jury and more than fifty cases to the court.  Mr. Dyer tried and won one of the first class actions ever tried to verdict in the state of Colorado.  Additionally, Mr. Dyer has successfully argued numerous appeals to the Colorado Court of Appeals, Supreme Court of Colorado, and the Tenth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.

During the course of his career, Mr. Dyer has participated in more than fifty securities and consumer class action lawsuits as lead or class counsel. As a result, Mr. Dyer has been responsible for the recovery of hundreds of millions of dollars for the benefit of aggrieved shareholders and consumers.  Some of Mr. Dyer’s notable cases include successful litigation against Qwest Communications, Inc., FirstWorld Communications Inc., Samsonite Corporation, J.D. Edwards & Company, Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI), ICG Communications, Inc., Coeur d' Alene Mines Corporation, One Stop Wireless of America, Inc., Storage Technology Corporation, Oceanic Exploration, Inc., McCulloch Oil Company, Colorado Western Development Company, Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Co., Vicorp Restaurants, Inc., and King Resources Company.

Before founding the predecessors to Dyer & Berens LLP, Mr. Dyer attended Oberlin College where he received his undergraduate degree in 1967.  Following service in the United States Army as a 1st Lieutenant during the Vietnam conflict, Mr. Dyer attended the University of Michigan Law School, from which he graduated cum laude in 1973.   During law school, Mr. Dyer served on the staff of and wrote for the University of Michigan Law School publication, Prospectus: A Journal of Law Reform. Following law school, Mr. Dyer clerked for a year with the New Mexico Supreme Court.   

Mr. Dyer was admitted to the state bar of New Mexico in 1973 and the state bar of Colorado in 1974.  He is also admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the District of Colorado, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.  Mr. Dyer is AV Rated among his peers, which recognizes his knowledge and skill derived from extensive experience (ranking him at the highest level of professional excellence) according to Martindale-Hubbell and is a member of the National Association of Shareholder & Consumer Attorneys (NASCAT).    

Away from the law, Mr. Dyer is an avid hunter and fisherman, motorcycle rider, rancher, and pilot.  His daughter, a recent graduate of Cornell University, plays volleyball in Europe and plans to attend medical school in the near future.