Thad McIntosh Guyer
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Thad McIntosh Guyer is an American civil rights lawyer with an international practice based in the State of Oregon.
, graduating in 1975 with a BS in International Law and Politics, and then the Antioch School of Law
, graduating in 1978.
dating back to 1978 in Tennessee, Arkansas, and Oregon. Since February 1990, Guyer has worked with T.M. Guyer & Friends, PC., which in 2005 became T.M. Guyer and Ayers & Friends, PC [ with the addition of law partner Stephani L. Ayers. Guyer & Ayers is a private law firm with a focus on corporate accountability, Sarbanes-Oxley and whistleblower
representation in the cyber security,nuclear safety, petrochemical and pipeline safety, aviation safety, and safety in the food and pharmaceuticals industries.
representing federal employees who have been retaliated against for reporting fraud, abuse of authority, waste and environmental abuses by federal agencies. One of his most notable civil lawsuits was the challenge of the wrongful termination of Shawn Carpenter
by Sandia National Laboratory, resulting in a $4.7 million verdict against Sandia. Guyer and his law partner Stephani L. Ayers co-counseled the case with American civil liberties lawyer Philip B. Davis
He has had deep ties with the Government Accountability Project
(GAP) for more than two decades. In February 2010, he celebrated the self-sacrifice and contributions of whistleblowers to American legal freedoms over the past four decades with Frank Serpico
, Daniel Ellsberg
, Coleen Rowley
, David Aaron Kessler
and others.http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Participant-Media-The-Paley-prnews-3422996959.html?x=0&.v=1 From 2002 until 2005, he served as GAP's Litigation Director and General Counsel. From 1986-2002 he worked as adjunct private attorney at GAP, representing GAP whistleblowers nationwide and internationally. http://guyerayers.com/thadcv2.html He has associated on numerous cases Thomas M. Devine, the internationally acknowledged expert in the world-wide whistleblower protection movement, and the moving force behind passage of the federal Whistleblower Protection Act
.
who were being detained by the INS at the former Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. In 1996, he served with the American Bar Association supported Coalition for International Justice
researching prisoners' rights
under international law at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
in The Hague, Netherlands. http://guyerayers.com/thadcv2.html. In 2006, he served as an advocate for whistleblowers in Tunis, Tunisia who were challenging lending practices involving international aid being administered by the African Development Bank
.
, Central University of Finance and Economics
, Anhui Agricultural University
, and at the National Employment Lawyers Association and the Practicing Law Institute, New York. He has presented webinars for the Accountability Project and the American Association for Justice,
Education
After graduating in 1969 from North Miami Senior High School in Miami, Florida, he was conscripted through the military draft and fought in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war, earning the rank of sergeant, and receiving the Bronze Star for meritorious service after his one year tour. He was honorably discharged in 1970 and attended the Georgetown University Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign ServiceEdmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
The Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service is a school within Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., United States. Jesuit priest Edmund A...
, graduating in 1975 with a BS in International Law and Politics, and then the Antioch School of Law
Antioch School of Law
Antioch School of Law was a law school in Washington, D.C. which specialized in public advocacy, which now operates as the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law.-History:...
, graduating in 1978.
Legal career
Guyer has had deep ties with Legal Services CorporationLegal Services Corporation
The Legal Services Corporation is a private, non-profit corporation established by the United States Congress. It seeks to ensure equal access to justice under the law for all Americans by providing civil legal assistance to those who otherwise would be unable to afford it...
dating back to 1978 in Tennessee, Arkansas, and Oregon. Since February 1990, Guyer has worked with T.M. Guyer & Friends, PC., which in 2005 became T.M. Guyer and Ayers & Friends, PC [ with the addition of law partner Stephani L. Ayers. Guyer & Ayers is a private law firm with a focus on corporate accountability, Sarbanes-Oxley and whistleblower
Whistleblower
A whistleblower is a person who tells the public or someone in authority about alleged dishonest or illegal activities occurring in a government department, a public or private organization, or a company...
representation in the cyber security,nuclear safety, petrochemical and pipeline safety, aviation safety, and safety in the food and pharmaceuticals industries.
National Whistleblower Advocacy and Litigation
He has been an active litigator before the United States Merit Systems Protection BoardUnited States Merit Systems Protection Board
The Merit Systems Protection Board is an independent quasi-judicial agency established to protect federal merit systems against partisan political and other prohibited personnel practices and to ensure adequate protection for federal employees against abuses by agency management...
representing federal employees who have been retaliated against for reporting fraud, abuse of authority, waste and environmental abuses by federal agencies. One of his most notable civil lawsuits was the challenge of the wrongful termination of Shawn Carpenter
Shawn Carpenter
Shawn Carpenter is an American Navy veteran and whistleblower who tracked down a Chinese cyberespionage ring that is code-named Titan Rain by the FBI...
by Sandia National Laboratory, resulting in a $4.7 million verdict against Sandia. Guyer and his law partner Stephani L. Ayers co-counseled the case with American civil liberties lawyer Philip B. Davis
He has had deep ties with the Government Accountability Project
Government Accountability Project
The Government Accountability Project is a leading United States whistleblower protection organization. Through litigating of whistleblower cases, publicizing concerns and developing legal reforms, GAP’s mission is to protect the public interest by promoting government and corporate accountability...
(GAP) for more than two decades. In February 2010, he celebrated the self-sacrifice and contributions of whistleblowers to American legal freedoms over the past four decades with Frank Serpico
Frank Serpico
Francesco Vincent Serpico is a retired American New York City Police Department officer who is most famous for testifying against police corruption in 1971...
, Daniel Ellsberg
Daniel Ellsberg
Daniel Ellsberg, PhD, is a former United States military analyst who, while employed by the RAND Corporation, precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War,...
, Coleen Rowley
Coleen Rowley
Coleen Rowley is a former FBI agent and whistleblower, and was a Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party candidate for Congress in Minnesota's 2nd congressional district, one of eight congressional districts in Minnesota in 2006...
, David Aaron Kessler
David Aaron Kessler
David Aaron Kessler is an American pediatrician, lawyer, author, and administrator...
and others.http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Participant-Media-The-Paley-prnews-3422996959.html?x=0&.v=1 From 2002 until 2005, he served as GAP's Litigation Director and General Counsel. From 1986-2002 he worked as adjunct private attorney at GAP, representing GAP whistleblowers nationwide and internationally. http://guyerayers.com/thadcv2.html He has associated on numerous cases Thomas M. Devine, the internationally acknowledged expert in the world-wide whistleblower protection movement, and the moving force behind passage of the federal Whistleblower Protection Act
Whistleblower Protection Act
-Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989:The Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 is a United States federal law that protects federal whistleblowers who work for the government and report agency misconduct...
.
International Advocacy'
Guyer has volunteered for significant international law projects during his career. In 1980 he provided emergency representation to Cuban refugees during the infamous Mariel BoatliftMariel boatlift
The Mariel boatlift was a mass emigration of Cubans who departed from Cuba's Mariel Harbor for the United States between April 15 and October 31, 1980....
who were being detained by the INS at the former Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. In 1996, he served with the American Bar Association supported Coalition for International Justice
Coalition for International Justice
The Coalition for International Justice was an international, non-profit organization based in both Washington D.C. and The Hague that supported the international war crimes tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, and criminal and transitional justice initiatives for East Timor, Sierra...
researching prisoners' rights
Prisoners' rights
The rights of civil and military prisoners are governed by both national and international law. International conventions include: the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; the United Nations' Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners and the European Committee for the...
under international law at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
The International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991, more commonly referred to as the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia or ICTY, is a...
in The Hague, Netherlands. http://guyerayers.com/thadcv2.html. In 2006, he served as an advocate for whistleblowers in Tunis, Tunisia who were challenging lending practices involving international aid being administered by the African Development Bank
African Development Bank
The African Development Bank Group is a development bank established in 1964 with the intention of promoting economic and social development in Africa...
.
Legal education
Guyer has given lectures at the Drexel University School of Law, The Wharton School of the University of PennsylvaniaWharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
The Wharton School is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Wharton was the world’s first collegiate business school and the first business school in the United States...
, Central University of Finance and Economics
Central University of Finance and Economics
Central University of Finance and Economics , colloquially known in Chinese as Zhongcai （中财） or Yangcai and formerly as the Central Institute of Finance and Economics, is a university in Beijing, China...
, Anhui Agricultural University
Anhui Agricultural University
Anhui Agricultural University is a Chinese institution of higher learning located in the urban area of Hefei, the provincial capital of Anhui Province, China...
, and at the National Employment Lawyers Association and the Practicing Law Institute, New York. He has presented webinars for the Accountability Project and the American Association for Justice,
Publications
- Thad M. Guyer and Stephani L. Ayers, "The Dimensions of Sarbanes-Oxley Federal Question Jurisdiction", Practicing Law Institute, 718 PLI/Lit 331 (January 2005). http://westlegaledcenter.findlaw.com/program_guide/course_detail.jsp?courseId=3353960&title=Understanding_Developments_in_Whistleblower_Law_3_Years_after_Sarbanes-Oxley_2006_%28Part_2%29
- Thad M. Guyer, Oregon Bar Bulletin, "Email and Horror: The critical need for e-mail redundancy" July 2002.
- Thad M. Guyer, "Behind the Technology Curve: Affordable Solutions for Lawyers without Lots of Money", Washington State Bar News, February 2003.
- Robert S. Catz & Thad M. Guyer, "Federal in Forma Pauperis Litigation: In Search of Judicial Standards", 31 Rutgers Law Review 655 (1979), cited in Case, J., 90 KYLJ 701 Kentucky Law Journal, "Pro Se Litigants at the Summary Judgment Stage".
- Thad M. Guyer, Survey of Local Civil Discovery Procedures, (Fed. Judicial Center 1977), cited in Edward F. Sherman, Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law , "The Evolution of American Civil Trial Process: Towards Greater Congruence with Continental Practice", Spring 1999; and "Report to the President and the Attorney General", 80 F.R.D. 509 January 22, 1979. http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals/mnlr63&div=17&id=&page=
- Thad M. Guyer and Debra F. Lee, "The Ethics of Poor Law Firm Management in the Legal Services System", 13 Clearinghouse Rev. 484 (1979), cited in "Conceiving a Lawyer's Duty to the Poor", 19 Hofstra Law Review 885 Summer, 1991