Significant Matters

• When a company involved in a dispute over a licensing agreement was sued for $20,000,000 in damages, Kyle helped win summary judgment for defendant on all counts.
• When a parent company was threatened with unlawful competition by a former employee, who was subject to a five-year non-competition provision agreed to in relation to the sale of a business, Kyle helped draft the successful motion for temporary injunctive relief.
• When a terminated employee was faced with the possible enforcement of a two-year non-solicitation provision, Kyle drafted the opposition memorandum that convinced a court to allow the terminated employee to work in his field of expertise.
• When an employer feared a competing business was raiding its employees in contravention of its employee’s non-competition provisions, Kyle convinced the competitor to enter into an agreement limiting future hiring.
• When a company wrongfully prevented minority shareholders from dissenting to a corporate merger, Kyle helped convince the court that the minority shareholders were entitled to fair payment for their shares.
• When a local credit union was sued by a former employee claiming she suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder caused by the termination of her employment, Kyle prior to trial successfully precluded a proffered expert witness from testifying as to that diagnosis, and then at trial won a defense verdict on that claim.
• When a national bank was faced with a lawsuit in relation to a debt owed by one of its customers, Kyle convinced a federal court to prohibit the lawsuit under Rhode Island’s trustee process statute.
• When a company delayed in filing suit, Kyle successfully moved to dismiss the action under a little-used statute of limitations pertaining to the sales of goods.
• When a state government wrongfully denied a criminal defendant access to grand jury records after the criminal charges were dismissed, Kyle successfully convinced a court to release those records, despite the fact that, in many instances, those records are kept confidential.

Honors & Distinctions

• Graduated cum laude from Roger Williams University School of Law in the top ten percent of his class.
• Graduated from University of Rhode Island with highest distinction, graduated from the University's honors program, and indicted into Phi Beta Kappa.
• Two-year research assistant to Legal Professor and Associate Dean David M. Zlotnick.
• Named Rhode Island Rising Star in 2009 and 2010, by the publishers of Super Lawyers, recognizing him as an outstanding young attorney in the Rhode Island legal community.
• Named Rhode Island Rising Star in 2009 and 2010 by the publishers of Super Lawyers, recognizing him as an outstanding young attorney in the Rhode Island legal community.

Professional Affiliations

• Board Member, Rhode Island Council for the Humanities

News

• 30 AP&S Attorneys Named to New England Super Lawyers 2009
• AP&S Welcomes New Associates

Publications & Seminars

• Two-year member, Roger Williams University Law Review; elected Notes & Comments editor in final year.
• Author, “ Rhode Island’s Right to a Safe  School:  A Means to an End of an End Without Means?” 8 Roger Williams U.L. Rev. 383 (2003).
• Co-Author of the Rhode Island Chapter of the Tort Law Desk Reference: A Fifty State Compendium - 2008, 2009 and 2010 editions.