About Kyle Landis-Marinello

Kyle has nearly two decades of experience in environmental and energy law, administrative law, and litigation in state and federal courts. Kyle was General Counsel of the Vermont Public Utility Commission for six years and has also worked as in-house counsel for the Vermont Electric Power Company. Kyle spent eight years working in the Environmental Protection Division of the Vermont Attorney General’s Office, where he was the 2015 recipient of the Miles Andross Award for dedicated public service that often goes unrecognized. He also clerked for the Vermont Environmental Court and for the Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court.

Kyle has worked on a number of high-profile cases involving novel legal issues of environmental, energy, administrative, and constitutional law. He helped defend the State of Vermont’s first-in-the-nation law requiring the labeling of genetically modified foods. Kyle also helped defend against a federal court challenge to a State’s ability to close an aging nuclear power plant. He has worked on numerous environmental enforcement and environmental cleanup cases, both at the trial and appellate level. Kyle has successfully argued several matters at the Vermont Supreme Court, including a precedent-setting case on what is now the prevailing standard for deference to state agencies in Vermont state courts. He was also a lead negotiator in the proceedings surrounding the sale of a nuclear power plant, where he and other State regulators prevailed in adding around $250 million in additional financial assurances for State residents and taxpayers.

Kyle is an active member of the American Bar Association’s Section on Environment, Energy, and Resources, where he is currently serving a two-year term as the Section’s Education Officer. He has also served as the Section’s Secretary, as a Council member, and as a Conference Planning Chair, and he was the recipient of the Section Chair’s annual public service award in 2023. Kyle is also a frequent speaker at bar association events.

While at law school, Kyle was an Editor of the Michigan Law Review and graduated Order of the Coif (in the top 10% of the class). He also won Certificates of Merit for obtaining the highest grade in several classes. In his Master’s degree program at Vermont Law School, Kyle similarly received numerous Academic Excellence Awards. While in college, he was a Vermont State Finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society. Kyle is also an avid Ultimate Frisbee player and whitewater kayaker and qualified for the Olympic Trials in whitewater slalom kayaking in 2000 and 2004.

Prior results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome with respect to any future matter.