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Kyle Kaiser

 

Kyle Kaiser is an Assistant Attorney General in the Litigation Division of the Utah Attorney General’s Office, a position he had held since July 2011. Kyle’s practice focuses on defending claims of constitutional or civil rights violations brought against the State of Utah, its agents, agencies, and subdivisions. Prior to working for the Utah AG’s Office, Kyle was employed as a Staff Attorney for Justice Dale Wainwright of the Supreme Court of Texas, where he not only assisted Justice Wainwright in researching and preparing opinions and analyzing petitions for review, but was in charge of the Court’s law clerk program and annual hot pepper eating competition. Before that, Kyle was a litigation and intellectual property associate with the law firm of Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A. in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and served as a law clerk for Richard Dorr, United States District Judge for the Western District of Missouri, in Springfield, Missouri.

 

Kyle received his J.D., with high distinction, from the University of Iowa College of Law in 2003, where he was Senior Managing Editor of the Iowa Law Review, was awarded the Hancher-Finkbine Medallion, and was inducted into Order of the Coif. Kyle received his bachelor’s degree in journalism from Drake University, summa cum laude, in 200.

 

Kyle has published and presented on the subject of the constitutionality of “perp walks,” the defense of Utah’s liquor laws against antitrust challenges, the application of the Minnesota hearsay rules, the decisions of the Trademark Trail and Appeals Board, the usefulness of pretrial dispositive motions, and the practice of appellate courts’ per curiam opinions.

 

Kyle is licensed to practice law in Utah, Texas, and Minnesota. Away from work, he enjoys spending time with his wife Pearl and their cat Annie, competing in pub trivia events, playing percussion with the local community band and piano in the privacy of his own home, traveling, and judging mock trial competitions.