Lawyer Overview

Randy Dryer is a member of the Litigation department. He has extensive expertise in media and internet law and has represented numerous e-commerce businesses, e-mail marketing providers and virtually every major news organization in the state of Utah and many national news organizations, including 60 Minutes, Scripps-League Newspapers, Redbook Magazine, The New York Times, CNN and the Associated Press.

Randy is a recognized expert in crisis management and crisis communications. He has advised numerous business clients in preparing their crisis management plans and in responding to a crisis when one occurs. He teaches a course in crisis management at the University of Utah College of Law.

Randy also has extensive experience in class action litigation and commercial litigation matters involving business torts and fraud, breach of contract, health care and defense industry qui tam and False Claim Act actions, unfair competition and infringement claims.

He has considerable experience and knowledge handling appeals having argued numerous cases before the Utah Supreme Court, the Utah Court of Appeals and the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. Randy has also filed various briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Randy lectures frequently on the subject of the First Amendment and has served as an associate instructor at the University of Utah College of Law and at the School of Mass Communications at the University of Utah. He currently teaches a journalism law and ethics course in the University of Utah honors department and a Pre-trial Practice course at the law school. Randy was elected president of the Utah Bar in 1992.

He was a member of the Salt Lake Olympic Organizing Committee and chairman of the Utah Athletic Foundation, the Olympic legacy organization that owns and operates various Olympic facilities. He presently is chair of the board of trustees of the University of Utah and a national director of the Campaign Legal Center, a Washington D.C. based non-profit organization involved with campaign reform. He has been listed in Best Lawyers in America each year since 1993.  Out of 1.1 million lawyers in the United States, Randy was one of 500 named to the Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators Guide in 2006.

Related Activities and Skills:

• Utah State Bar Association, President, 1992-93
• American Bar Association, Litigation Section
• Salt Lake County Bar Association, President, 1986-87
• University Hospital, Board of Directors
• Repertory Dance Theater, Board of Directors
• University of Utah Board of Trustees
• Commission on Justice in the 21st Century, Board of Directors
• Court ADR Panel Mediator and Arbitrator
• Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America 1993-2008, First Amendment Law
• Named one of Utah's 100 Elite Lawyers by Utah Business magazine
• Named a Mountain States "Super Lawyer" by Law & Politics

Areas of Practice

• Litigation & Appeals
• Banking Litigation
• False Claims Litigation
• Products Liability Litigation
• Media & First Amendment
• Media & Entertainment Law
• Outdoor Sports Industry
• Constitutional Law
• Computer Law
• Class Actions
• Personal Injury
• Defamation & Privacy
• Science & Technology Law
• Whistleblower/Qui Tam
• Health & Life Sciences
• Political/Governmental Law

West Practice Categories

Directors' & Officers' Liability, Communications & Media Law, Internet, Print Media, Radio, Television & Film, Constitutional Law, Freedom of Information, Freedom of Press, Freedom of Speech, Election Campaign & Political Law, Election & Campaign Law, Ethics, Internet -- Cyberspace, Computer Law, Domain Names, Electronic Commerce, Litigation & Appeals, Class Actions, Complex Litigation, Federal Appellate Practice, Federal Trial Practice, State Appellate Practice, State Trial Practice, Personal Injury -- Defense, Defamation & Privacy -- Defense, Science & Technology Law, Whistleblower/Qui Tam

Bar Admissions

• U.S. Supreme Court, 1983
• U.S. District Court District of Utah, 1976
• Utah, 1976

Classes and Seminars

• "What You Need To Know About Public Records And Open Meetings In Utah", Lorman Education Services, April 8, 2005
• "Public Records and Open Meetings - What Attorneys, Journalists and Agencies Need to Know in Utah", Lorman Seminar presentation 2001, 2002, 2004 and 2006
• "Media Relations for Government Officials", Lorman Seminar presentation, 2003 and 2004
• "Local Government Law and Municipal Litigation Update", Lorman Seminar, 2004

Education

• University of Utah College of Law, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1976
  J.D. degree
• University of Utah, 1972
  B.S. degree

Published Works

• Libel in MLRC 50-State Survey of Libel and Privacy Law, Utah chapter

Address

201 South Main Street
Suite 1800
Salt Lake City, UT 84111-2218

Phones

801-532-1234

Faxes

801-536-6111

Emails

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Websites

http://www.parsonsbehlelaw.com