Kayla D. Dreyer

Advocate for clients in complex commercial and traditional employment matters. Trusted advisor on all matters impacting employers, executives and human resource officers. Focused experience in the areas of trade secrets theft and unlawful competition.

Kayla Dreyer combines her background as a sophisticated litigator with her work on traditional employment matters and as trusted corporate counsel. Kayla is a versatile and extensively-trained litigator representing clients in cases and arbitrations throughout the country. Her commercial litigation practice encompasses trade secrets, employee restrictive covenants and intellectual property disputes, as well as traditional employment issues involving alleged discrimination, harassment, wage and hour violations and retaliation. Kayla has significant experience counseling companies on trade secrets, employee restrictive covenants, alleged discrimination, harassment, wage and hour violations and retaliation.

Kayla provides a full suite of employment counseling and advice services for all manner of employers and regularly negotiates employment, non-competition, non-disclosure, non-solicitation and severance agreements relating to executives, medical and legal professionals, and other high-wage earners in transition. She also assists with due diligence support in corporate acquisition and merger transactions. Kayla rounds out her practice by providing customized employment services to nonprofits, family office and private individuals and families.

With a truly nationwide practice, Kayla regularly litigates, arbitrates and represents clients throughout the United States and has deep ties throughout her home state of Texas, as well as New Mexico where she completed a federal judicial clerkship.

Education

J.D., University of Texas School of Law

B.A., University of Texas-Pan American, magna cum laude

Admissions

Colorado

Texas

Memberships

Past Chair, Colorado Bar Association Litigation Section

Colorado Bar Association

Denver Bar Association

Colorado Women’s Bar Association

Women in e-Discovery

Colorado General Counsel Mentor Program

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT:

Colorado Symphony, Board of Trustees

Colorado Bar Association COBALT, Class of 2022

Leadership SBOT, Class of 2011

Junior League of Denver

Board of Directors, Bella Boutique (former)
 

AWARDS:

5280 Top Lawyers, 2025

Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America, 2023-2025

Colorado General Counsel Mentor Program, 2023