Jeff Dykes is the partner-in-charge of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.'s Denver office, and co-chair of the firm's Energy Practice Group.  His practice as a trial lawyer covers a wide range of cases, including energy, environmental, tort, contract, construction and antitrust matters.  He has tried over sixty cases to jury verdict and he is certified as a Specialist in Civil Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.

Significant cases include:

• Representation of an owner of a nuclear power plant in litigation against the architect-engineer-constructor and the project manager for cost and schedule overruns. 
• Representation of major airline company in defense of suit by partners for alleged failure to properly manage project to develop state-of-the-art software for hospitality industry
• Lead counsel for waste disposal company in suit against environmental insurance company for bad faith denial of claims
• Lead counsel for pipeline company against three gas producers in a fraud suit to terminate a long-term gas purchase contract
• Lead counsel for major oil and gas company in binding arbitration against royalty owners involving valuation of the royalty interest
• Lead counsel for chemical company in a defamation suit involving patent and technology rights
• Lead counsel for oil and gas company in suit by state environmental agency for recovery of remediation expense. 
• Lead counsel for oil and gas company in suit by state highway department for environmental clean-up costs.
• Lead counsel for oilfield services company in toxic tort suit by over 1,000 plaintiffs for alleged personal injuries and diminution of property values
• Lead counsel for coal mining and quarry companies in antitrust price-fixing suit against manufacturers of commercial explosives
• Lead counsel for oil and gas company in an alleged class action suit in which plaintiffs claim intentional undermeasurement of purchased oil on a statewide basis for over a fourteen-year period
• Lead counsel for 22 pipeline companies as plaintiffs against a state port authority and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers concerning the cost of relocating pipelines to accommodate a federal-state navigation project.
• Lead counsel for transmission pipeline companies in suits by municipalities for franchise or "street-crossing" fees
• Lead counsel for a physician staffing company in suit against medical malpractice insurer for bad faith cancellation of coverage. 
• Lead counsel for a Qualified Scheduling Entity in antitrust suits alleging manipulation of the Texas wholesale electricity market. 
• Lead counsel for directors of parent company of failed HMOs in litigation raising issues of corporate governance and corporate separateness
• Representation of a former owner of an aluminum extrusion plant in an action under CERCLA for costs to respond to groundwater contamination

• Colorado Bar Association
• Denver Bar Association
• Energy Bar Association
• The Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation
• Independent Petroleum Association of America
• American Bar Association
  • Litigation Section
  • Tort and Insurance Practice Section
    • Property Insurance Law Committee, Past Chair
• Federal Bar Association - South Texas Chapter, Director and Vice President
• Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit
• Texas Bar Association
• Texas Association of Civil Trial and Appellate Specialists, Director and Past President
• Houston Bar Association

• American Board of Trial Advocates, Advocate
• Who's Who in American Law
• Chambers USA, ranked among the leading attorneys in Energy & Natural Resources in Texas
• "Texas Super Lawyer," Texas Monthly magazine

• Co-author, "Issues Impacting the Energy Industry After the Hurricanes," State Bar of Texas, Oil, Gas, and Energy Section Report, December 2005
• Co-author, Trends In Energy Litigation, 2004
• "Street Crossing Fees: A Misconceived Attack On The Pipeline Industry," World Energy, 1998

• “Oil and Gas Development in the Rockies: The Risks and Rewards,” Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P and IPAMS Client Seminar, Panel Moderator, October 2006
• “Current Issues in Gas Marketing: Civil and Criminal Perspectives,” Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Client Seminar, Panel Moderator, September 2006
• "The Energy Industry After the Hurricanes: Dealing with Storms of Controversy and Private Law," Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Client Seminar, Panel Moderator, November 2005
• "Best Practice: Establish a Records Management Policy - And Designate One Person Who Is Truly Responsible," Panelist, Martindale-Hubbell Counsel-to-Counsel Forum, November 2005
• "Directors' Duties in the Zone Of Insolvency," Financial Executives International, September 2004
• "Cities versus Pipelines: Issues On And Below The Surface,"  Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Client Seminar, May 2004
• "Energy Litigation Trends 2004," Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Client Seminar, Panel Moderator, April 2004
• "Changing The Rules (State and Federal)," El Paso Corporation, Legal Department, February 2004
• "The Long Arm Of U.S. Jurisdiction - Current Issues For Non-U.S. Companies: What Non-U.S. Companies Should Know About Doing Business In The U.S.," Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Client Seminar, London, England, April 2003
• "E-Discovery," Advanced Civil Trial Law Conference, South Texas College of Law, February 2003
• "The Trouble with Documents: Document Preservation and Destruction Policies," Financial Executives International, January 2003
• "Cities Claims Against Pipelines For 'Street Rent,'" Texas Utility Lawyers Annual Meeting, Sundance, Utah, October 1998

1972 - J.D., University of Texas School of Law
1966 - B.A., with distinction, Germanic Languages, Stanford University
1968 - M.A., Humanities and German, Stanford University

While attending Stanford University, Jeff was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He attended the Free University of Berlin on an exchange graduate fellowship. While attending law school, he was elected to the Order of the Coif and the Texas Law Review. In 1972-73, Jeff served as a law clerk for the Honorable Homer Thornberry of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Jeff is admitted to the bar in Colorado and Texas, and he is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits, and the U.S. District Courts for the District of Colorado and the Southern, Eastern, and Northern Districts of Texas.

Jeff is an avid bicyclist and a founding member of the Rocket Sprockets cycling team.  He has completed the 500-mile "Pedal The Peaks" tour of the Rockies and twelve MS 150 bicycle tours from Houston to Austin (182 miles).  He also enjoys hiking and reading.