Margaret I. Lyle

Margaret Lyle has broad experience in complex commercial litigation and in the defense of mass tort and consumer class actions in the trial courts and on appeal. She has represented clients in the semiconductor, information, chemical, steel, mining, tobacco, and food service industries in significant matters involving technology transfers, product liability, consumer statutes, insurance coverage, construction, real property condemnation, and patent disputes.

Since 1997 Margaret has represented R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in the coordinated defense of more than 30 proposed class actions in state and federal courts across the country — cases presenting diverse product liability theories of personal injury, consumer fraud, medical monitoring, and RICO. She has also represented Experian Information Solutions in the defense of class actions and consumer claims brought under the Fair Credit Reporting Act and other statutes. She has had significant roles in representing Texas Instruments in semiconductor patent infringement cases against Samsung Electronics and others and in litigation involving breach of a microprocessor design contract and insurance coverage for environmental remediation costs.

Margaret served on the panel of practitioner contributors to the Seventh and Eight Editions of Black’s Law Dictionary and has co-authored seminar materials on class actions. She is a member of the Dallas Bar Association and Attorneys Serving the Community and has served on the boards of community arts, historical, and pro bono legal organizations; coached a high school mock trial team; and taught business law and paralegal training courses.