G. Bryan Ulmer, III
Bryan Ulmer was born in 1970 in Bagley, Minnesota. He moved to Newcastle, Wyoming in 1984 and has lived in Wyoming since. After graduating from Newcastle High School in 1988, he attended the University of Wyoming where he graduated with a degree in Business Administration in 1992.
Bryan continued his education at the University of Wyoming College of Law in Laramie, Wyoming. He published in the Land and Water Law Review and served as a law review casenote editor his third year of law school.
Bryan graduated with honors from the University of Wyoming College of Law in 1995 - ranked first in his law school class -- and was inducted in to the Order of the Coif, a national law school scholastic honorary society. After law school Bryan started working as an associate at The Spence Law Firm. He was drawn to the ideals embodied by the firm’s members and its founder Gerry Spence. Bryan believes that the law was intended to serve and protect the people:
“The law in the hands of the jury is the great equalizer. It gives the ordinary citizen the opportunity to obtain justice and gives the people - through the jury - the power to effect positive change for society. Power over wealthy corporations. Power over governments. The law, through the jury, gives the people power over the powerful.”
Bryan became a shareholder and partner in the Spence Law Firm in the year 2000.
Bryan has worked on many challenging and noteworthy cases throughout his career, representing injured people and their families against big corporations and the government. He has successfully settled or tried cases for wrongful death or catastrophic injury, workplace accidents, products liability, oil and gas field accidents, medical malpractice, trucking collisions, and injuries to children. Bryan’s approach to his cases is both creative and innovative. He has challenged and expanded the law to allow his clients to recover for their injuries and has negotiated settlements intended to protect and benefit not only his clients, but others as well.
Bryan attended Gerry Spence's Trial Lawyers College in 1999 and has served as a faculty member at the college since 2000. He also serves as a board member for the not-for-profit public interest law firm, Lawyers and Advocates for Wyoming (L.A.W.) and has donated hundreds of hours of his time pursuing public interest cases on behalf of the firm. He continues to serve his law school as an invited member of the University of Wyoming College of Law Board of Advisors, and is currently on the Board of Directors of the Wyoming Trial Lawyers Association.
During 2004 and 2005, Bryan completed an intensive postgraduate program at the University of Utah in conflict resolution. The program focused on negotiation and mediation and involved over 100 hours of course work and mediation training.
Bryan is admitted to practice law in the State courts of Wyoming and Colorado, The United States Supreme Court, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals and in the Federal Courts of Wyoming, Colorado, and the Central District of Illinois. He has been admitted on a case-by-case basis to the Courts of seven additional states and has represented clients throughout the United States in wrongful death, personal injury, civil rights and work safety accidents.
Bryan lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, with his wife, Vonde, his son, Zander, and daughter, Ava. He enjoys the outdoors, time with his friends, fly-fishing Wyoming's terrific waters, hunting with his Labrador retrievers and skiing.
Charlene is Bryan's paralegal.
