Deryl W. Wynn


dwynn@mvplaw.com
(913) 371-3838
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Admitted to Practice:
  • Kansas, 1986
  • Missouri, 2006
  • U.S. District Court, District of Kansas
  • U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit

Education:
  • J.D. with Dean's honors, Washburn University, 1986
  • Judge Advocate General School, Department of the Army, 1986
  • B.F.A. and B.S. with honors, Emporia State University, 1983

Deryl Wynn's practice emphasizes employment and labor law, as well as school law.  He serves as General Counsel for the Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools and the Kansas City Kansas Community College.  Mr. Wynn is the attorney for the Kansas City, Kansas Public Library and Wyandot Center for Community Behavioral Healthcare, Inc. 

An experienced labor negotiator, Mr. Wynn represents management in collective bargaining with Teamsters, Service Employees International Union and National Education Association.  He has led the employer's bargaining team on more than forty occasions, resulting in many beneficial agreements.  Mr. Wynn has experience in traditional and interest-based bargaining.

He has appeared in federal and state courts in Kansas, Missouri, and Virginia, as well as in military tribunals.  Mr. Wynn lectures nationally and publishes articles on employee drug testing, the  Americans with Disabilities Act, special education law, school violence, sexual harassment, the Family and Medical Leave Act.  He coauthored a special education law publication and taught professional ethics at St. Mary College.

Mr. Wynn is a former Army Captain, where he served as Chief Trial Counsel for the United States Army Transportation Headquarters at Fort Eustis and Fort Story, Virginia.  He was awarded the Army Meritorious Service Medal, and he served as a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Mr. Wynn was the lead attorney in the successful completion of desegregating the Kansas City, Kansas school district.  He served as the Kansas Association of School Attorneys' Region 1 Director.  Mr. Wynn served as the Kansas City Kansas Area Chamber of Commerce Chairman of the Board and was a member of the Kansas Board of Discipline Attorneys.  He served as President of the Kansas Council of School Attorneys and as Chair of the National School Board Association's Council of School Attorneys.

The National Eagle Leadership Institute  and Career Focus Magazine awarded Mr. Wynn the Eagle Award for Outstanding Professional and Community Leadership.  Ingram's Magazine designated him as one of its "40 Under 40 Power Elite Class of 1998."  He received the National Association for Community Leadership's Distinguished Leadership Award and was appointed by Governor Graves to the Kansas Board of Regents. Emporia State University honored Mr. Wynn with its Distinguised Alumni Award.


Practice Areas:
Administrative Law
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Education Law
Government & Municipal
Labor and Employment
Litigation
Not-For-Profit Organizations

Accomplishments:
National speaker in the areas of employment and school law.
Successfully defended private and public employers at trial and appellate levels against claims of racial, sexual and disability discrimination.
Member, Oxford University Roundtable on Education Policy.
Successful defense of health care professionals before state regulatory boards.
Lead counsel in completion of Kansas City, Kansas school district desegregation litigation.
Several successful representation of public employers in collective bargaining.
Co-author treatise on Special Education Law.
Served as President of the Kansas Council of School Attorneys and as Chair of the National School Board Association's Council of School Attorneys.


Professional Organizations:
National Council of School Attorneys
Kansas Bar Association, Employment Law Section
Society of Human Resource Management
The Missouri Bar
Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association


Articles:
12/28/2007 Managers' Pre-Dismissal Checklist