Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2024 
As a commercial litigator, Kyle represents both businesses and individuals in a variety of high-stakes matters, including commercial disputes, employment disputes and complex tort cases. Kyle brings to all his clients valuable trial experience, having handled jury trials, bench trials, and preliminary evidentiary hearings not only in Rhode Island, but in numerous other jurisdictions in New England. Kyle prides himself on the relationships he builds with all of his clients, which allow him to give informed, candid advice that is in the clients’ best business interests.
Among the many different types of litigation matters that he handles, Kyle frequently litigates and works with his clients and opposing counsel to resolve, disputes between employers and their former employees implicating non-competition provisions and/or trade secret law. Kyle has obtained many favorable outcomes for his non-compete clients, including a national medical care company facing a regional hiring raid of its employees in contravention of the employees’ non-competition provisions, which required litigation in multiple forums; a prominent Rhode Island design and manufacturing company facing the departure of an employee who possessed valuable product design information; a parent company threatened with unlawful competition following the purchase of a business; and a terminated employee threatened with the possible enforcement of a two-year non-solicitation agreement.
Prior to his 20-year career at AP&S, Kyle served for two years as a law clerk for Chief Justice Frank J. Williams of the Rhode Island Supreme Court.
