Kyle offers strategic guidance on virtually all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, helping clients develop practical solutions to complex workplace challenges.

Overview

As an advisor, Kyle brings a pragmatic approach to helping clients navigate complex challenges with confidence. He assists clients with an array of matters, including developing and delivering management and leadership training, drafting policies and employee handbooks, conducting workplace investigations, and responding to requests for disability and religious accommodations. He also helps employers maintain compliance with federal and state wage and hour laws, and, when necessary, the WARN Act.

When necessary, Kyle represents businesses before state and federal courts, as well as administrative agencies. He has helped his clients navigate claims of discrimination and retaliation brought under a range of state and federal laws such as Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act, the Kansas Act Against Discrimination, the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1981, the Fair Labor Standards Act, and AIR21.

Kyle also assists unionized clients with a variety of labor matters, including collective bargaining, union grievances and arbitrations, unfair labor practice charges, and strike preparation.

Kyle's prior experience includes serving as in-house counsel to companies in the aviation manufacturing industry and the hospitality industry. Working directly with business leaders on a daily basis provided Kyle with a thorough understanding of the challenges businesses face in their workplaces. He uses this insight to help clients find effective strategies for maintaining compliance with the ever-evolving landscape of workplace laws.

Experience

  • As a former in-house counsel, Kyle regularly provided guidance to business leaders confronting complex and time-sensitive labor and employment matters in both unionized and non-union settings. 
  • Kyle has assisted clients with several collective bargaining negotiations, including drafting proposals and actively participating in negotiations.
  • He has advised clients on compliance with tip-pooling rules and regulations.
  • Kyle has counseled multiple clients throughout the process of preparing for and carrying out significant reductions in force, including plant closings and mass layoffs triggering obligations under the WARN Act.
  • He has provided legal guidance to an employer who experienced a strike of several-thousand employees.
  • He has defended multiple businesses facing claims of tortious interference with contract and tortious interference with prospective business advantage.

News & Insights

Publications

"Examining Damages in ADEA Retaliation Claims," Law360, June 2017

"Daubert in Kansas: Prompting a Fresh Look at the Admissibility of Scientific Evidence," The Journal of the Kansas Bar Association, October 2015

Speaking Engagements

New Challenges for HR in 2020 - Wichita

Mark Arts Center, 01.28.2020

2019 Business Law Update - Wichita

Mary R. Koch Arts Center, 04.04.2019

Recognitions

Recognitions

Named to the 2021 Best Lawyers in America© "Ones to Watch" list

Admissions

  • Kansas
  • Colorado
  • U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas
  • U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

Education

Pepperdine University School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2012

  • Pepperdine Law Review, Note and Comment Editor

Kansas State University, B.A., summa cum laude, 2008

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