Before joining the firm, Kyla Snow served in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Federal Programs Branch. At DOJ, she defended the President, Cabinet officials, and Executive Branch agencies in federal courts around the country against challenges to high-profile programs and policies. Kyla briefed and argued complex questions of constitutional, statutory, and administrative law, and managed all aspects of trial litigation. Her team’s defense of a novel First Amendment challenge to dozens of White House and agency officials’ communications with social media companies ultimately resulted in a win for the government at the Supreme Court. Kyla also successfully defended an Administrative Procedure Act challenge to multiple agencies’ statutory authority to regulate certain short-term health insurance plans and obtained dismissal of five separate challenges to the constitutionality of the President’s appointment of members to a labor dispute resolution panel. 

Kyla received several awards for her work at DOJ, including the prestigious Rookie of the Year Award given to attorneys with less than five years of federal service who have substantially contributed to the Department’s mission.

While at DOJ, Kyla was detailed for six months to the Office of the General Counsel at the Office of Management and Budget, where she advised agencies across the Executive Branch on litigation risks associated with draft and final regulations. 

Kyla graduated first in her class from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and upon graduation clerked in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

*Not admitted in the District of Columbia. Practice limited to matters before U.S. courts.