Kyle T. Edwards focuses her practice on complex litigation and appeals.

Prior to joining the firm in 2023, Ms. Edwards was an attorney in the Appellate Staff of the Civil Division at the United States Department of Justice, where she argued five cases in the federal Courts of Appeals, in the DC, Fifth, Eighth and Tenth Circuits. Ms. Edwards also clerked for The Hon. Stephen G. Breyer (ret.) and The Hon. Ketanji Brown Jackson of the United States Supreme Court, The Hon. Raymond J. Lohier, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and The Hon. Leondra R. Kruger of the California Supreme Court. 

While in law school, Ms. Edwards served as the Executive Editor for Articles & Essays for the Yale Law Journal and was a finalist in the Morris Tyler Moot Court of Appeals. Before law school, Ms. Edwards completed a DPhil in Public Health at the University of Oxford as a Marshall Scholar, where her dissertation focused on bioethics and public policy. 

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Credentials

  • Education

    • JD, Yale Law School, 2018

      Executive Editor for Articles & Essays, Yale Law Journal 

      Finalist and Co-Chair, Morris Tyler Moot Court of Appeals

      Law Student Intern, Global Health and Justice Practicum and Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic

      Director of Programming, Yale Health Law and Policy Society 

      Editor, Global Constitutionalism Seminar

    • DPhil, Public Health, University of Oxford, 2015

      Marshall Scholar
    • AB, School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 2012

      summa cum laude

      Phi Beta Kappa

      Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence

  • Admissions

    • California

    • US Supreme Court

    • US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

    • US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

    • US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

    • US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

    • US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

  • Clerkships

    • The Hon. Stephen G. Breyer (ret.), US Supreme Court, 2022 - 2023

    • The Hon. Ketanji Brown Jackson, US Supreme Court, 2022 - 2023

    • The Hon. Raymond J. Lohier, Jr., US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 2019 - 2020

    • The Hon. Leondra R. Kruger, California Supreme Court, 2018 - 2019

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