Husch Blackwell welcomes Associate Christina M. Pyle to the firm’s Kansas City, Mo., office. Pyle joins the firm’s Business Litigation team, her area of concentration since being admitted to practice in 2011.
Prior to joining Husch Blackwell, Pyle was an Associate at a firm in Overland Park, Kan. (2011-2012). While there, Pyle primarily defended businesses by providing pre-litigation counsel and representation during all stages of litigation in multiple areas, including professional liability, construction and design, business torts, employment, contract disputes, fee disputes, legal malpractice, medical malpractice, premises liability, personal injury, insurance defense and §1983 claims.
Pyle received her J.D. from the University of Notre Dame Law School (2011), where she was a J.L. Weigand, Jr., Notre Dame Legal Education Trust Scholar and Senior Articles Editor for the Notre Dame Journal of Legislation. During law school, she also clerked for the Hon. James F. Vano, District Court of Johnson County, Kan., Division 2. Pyle received her B.S.B.A. from Kansas State University (2008), where she was on the Dean’s List.
With more than 300 Litigation attorneys, Husch Blackwell has won verdicts and negotiated settlements resulting in the recovery of hundreds of millions of dollars for clients. The firm has handled cases in virtually all areas of litigation, including business and commercial disputes, class action, product liability, professional liability, consumer fraud litigation and toxic tort defense.