About Margaret I. Lyle
Practice Areas
- Appellate
- Business Law
- Federal
- Class Actions
Education
- The University of Texas School of Law, Austin, Texas, 1984J.D.
- Honors: With High Honors
- Honors: Order of the Coif
- Honors: Grand Chancellor
- Law Review: Texas Law Review, Articles Editor
- Southern Methodist University, 1981B.A.
- Southern Methodist University, 1981B.S.
- Honors: summa cum laude
Representative Cases
- Brush Wellman defends class certification in nationwide beryllium product liability class action (2009)
- Computer Sciences Corp. achieves favorable settlement in computer software class action brought by more than one million insurance claimants (2010)
- ConsumerInfo.com defeats class certification in a proposed Illinois class action involving Internet website marketing (2009)
- ConsumerInfo.com defeats class certification in a proposed nationwide class action (2009)
- ConsumerInfo.com settles nationwide class action in Northern District of California (2009)
- Experian defeats certification of proposed nationwide class action seeking damages under FCRA
- Experian defeats proposed nationwide class action brought under FCRA in federal court in Texas
- Experian defends nationwide class action involving credit reporting (2009)
- Experian resolves proposed Florida class action alleging violations of Driver's Privacy Protection Act (2009)
- Experian settles nationwide class action under Fair Credit Reporting Act in South Carolina (2009)
- Experian successful in case construing Minnesota price-cap statute for consumer credit reports
- Forgent Networks files complaint and request for injunction causing dissident shareholder to file amended proxy materials (2009)
- IBM defends against patent infringement charges relating to data management on computer networks (2009)
- Jones Day Dallas team tries municipal liability case in federal court (2012)
- R. J. Reynolds successfully defends medical monitoring case in Nevada (2009)
- R.J. Reynolds defeats certification of Minnesota class action seeking smoking-cessation and medical-monitoring programs (2009)
- R.J. Reynolds defeats certification of NJ medical-monitoring class action brought by casino workers (2009)
- R.J. Reynolds defeats class certification in proposed South Carolina class action (2009)
- R.J. Reynolds defeats proposed Oklahoma class action brought on statutory fraud theory (2009)
- R.J. Reynolds obtains dismissal of proposed class action of Tennessee consumers (2009)
- R.J. Reynolds obtains dismissal of two proposed Tennessee tobacco class actions and affirmation on appeal (2009)
- R.J. Reynolds obtains Oregon Supreme Court affirmance of proposed class action seeking medical monitoring for smokers (2009)
- R.J. Reynolds obtains voluntary dismissal of proposed class action in Eastern District of Texas (2009)
- R.J. Reynolds successfully defends proposed Iowa tobacco product liability class action (2009)
- Saudi Basic Industries defends breach of contract and tort action governed by Saudi Arabian law in Delaware courts and Supreme Court (2009)
- Saudi Basic Industries successfully appeals claim that nuclear reactor technology was misappropriated (2009)
- Value-Added Communications prosecutes breach of patent license agreement in state court and defends patent infringement claim in federal court (2009)
- Washington Group International dismissed from Hurricane Katrina levee breach class action (2009)
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- Texas
- U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas
Past Positions
- Judge Thomas Gibbs Gee, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, Law Clerk, 1984 - 1985
Office Info
Other Colleagues
- Partner-In-Charge Dallas
- Of Counsel
- Partner
- Partner
Nearby Lawyers
- Appellate
- Business Law
- Federal
- Class Actions
- 0.8 mile away
- 0.1 mile away
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