Bryan is an Army combat-veteran who served as an infantryman during Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at El Paso and obtained his law degree from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. Bryan began his legal career as a law clerk for the Honorable Judge Mark D. Pfeiffer of the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District.
Before joining Taylor Anderson, Bryan served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division of the Southern District of Texas U.S. Attorney’s Office. As an AUSA, Bryan handled hundreds of cases successfully including drugs and firearms trafficking, alien smuggling, and environmental crimes. Bryan has extensive courtroom experience that extends from handling pretrial motion hearings to conducting trials as lead counsel and briefing appellate courts at both the state and federal level.
Practice Areas
Education
- University of Missouri (J.D. – 2021).
- Honor: Order of the Barristers
- Law Review: Editor in Chief of the Journal of Dispute Resolution
- University of Texas, El Paso (B.A. – 2017, summa cum laude).
- Major: Criminal Justice
Bar Admissions
- Missouri
- Texas
Court Admissions
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas
Criminal Law
- Guilty verdict obtained after a two-day trial against defendant that attempted to smuggle over 100 pounds of methamphetamine into the United States from Mexico. The drugs were hidden a secret compartment that was built into the roof of the car that the defendant recently acquired. As lead counsel, Bryan successfully proved to the jurors that the defendant had knowledge of the drugs and the conspiracy to smuggle the drugs.
- Guilty verdict obtained after a two-day trial against defendant that fraudulently assumed the identity of a United States citizen. The defendant, who is a Mexican citizen, assumed the identity of his deceased-brother, who was a U.S. citizen. Both the defendant and his mother testified on his behalf, but Bryan was able to skillfully prove that the defendant was not who he claimed to be.
- Prevailed on vigorously contested motion to suppress filed by two of the three defendants in the same case. The case involved three firearms smugglers who attempted to illegally export a firearm to Mexico.
Bryan Oliver, Forgotten Heroes: The Unacceptable Results of Military Administrative Separations, 2021 J. Disp. Resol. (2021)
- Inns of Court
- Texas Bar Association
- Missouri Bar Association
- El Paso Bar Association
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