Kyle R. Cummins
Office Information
Practice Areas
Biography – View PDF Bio
- Associations
- Bar Admissions
- Distinctions
- Education & Honors
- Experience
- In the News
- Papers, Presentations, & Publications
Bar Admissions
- Tennessee, 2014
- U.S. District Courts
- Tennessee: Western
- U.S. Court of Appeals
- 6th Circuit
Distinctions
- Best Lawyers in America®
- Ones to Watch, Health Care Law, 2021
- Ones to Watch, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants, 2021
Education & Honors
- University of Memphis, J.D., summa cum laude, 2014
- Editor-in-Chief, The University of Memphis Law Review
- Best Note, The University of Memphis Law Review Vol. 44
- Freshman Moot Court Champion and Best Oral Advocate
- CALI Awards: Products Liability, Evidence, Torts I, Civil Procedure II, Constitutional Law, Remedies, Securities Regulation, Education & Civil Rights
- Auburn University, B.A., Political Science and Spanish, summa cum laude, 2011
- Phi Beta Kappa
- Honors College Graduate
- Clerkships, Honorable S. Thomas Anderson, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, 2014-2015
Experience
- Ridings v. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. – Assisted defense team in Pradaxa preemption evidentiary hearing in the Western District of Missouri. Summary judgment for defendant. 444 F. Supp. 3d 973 (W.D. Mo. 2020).
- Gallam v. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. – Assisted trial team in second Pradaxa bellwether trial in Hartford, Connecticut Superior Court. Defense verdict.
Papers, Presentations, & Publications
- Presenter, “My Product Is on the Market; Now What?,” Medmarc Insurance Group webinar (June 2017).
- Co-Author, “Protected or Prosecutable? Mass Tort Plaintiff-Attorney Advertising,” DRI: For the Defense (Nov. 2016).
- Co-Author, "Plaintiff Attorney Advertising: Protected or Prosecutable?" Pro Te Solutio, Vol. 8, No. 5, Spring 2016.
- Author, “The Intersection of CLS and Hosanna-Tabor: The Ministerial Exception Applied to Religious Student Organizations,” 44 U. Mem. L. Rev. 141 (2013).