Thomas D. Boyle, Esq.

Mr. Boyle’s broad litigation practice includes trials and appeals.

He has handled trade secret disputes in the insurance, restaurant and technology industries.  He has significant experience handling insurance cases involving bad faith, insurer/broker disputes, environmental contamination coverage questions and product liability.

Mr. Boyle has represented clients in child abuse, personal injury and wrongful death claims, as well as quiet title actions, commercial and consumer disputes and local government issues such as annexation and incorporation.  Mr. Boyle is a sought after mediator, having mediated more than one hundred civil cases and non-litigated disputes.

Representative Cases
Mesa Oil, Inc. v. Insurance Co. of North America, 123 F.3d 1333
(10th Cir. 1997) (insurance coverage dispute concerning environmental contamination of soil)
Mesa Operating Co. v. California Union Insurance Co., 986 S.W.2d 749 (Tex. App. 1999) (insurance coverage dispute concerning contamination of aquifer)
Estate of Gaston Patout v. City of New Iberia, 738 So.2d 544 (La. 1999) (insurance coverage dispute concerning trespass and unauthorized dumping on private property)
Bowie Dozer Service, Inc. v. Fiatallis North America, Inc., 1999 WL 1120290 (Tex. App. Dec. 8,1999) (dispute concerning defective bulldozer)
Dobson v. Metro Label Corp., 786 S.W.2d 63 (Tex. App. 1990) (employee termination)

Education
Brigham Young University, J.D., 1984
Editor, BYU Law Review
Brigham Young University, B.A., Business Management (Marketing), 1980

Admissions
Utah, 1984
Texas, 1986

Affiliations
Executive Committee Utah State Bar: Litigation Section (2008-present)
American Bar Association

Second Language
French

Publications and Presentations
“Got Trade Secrets? Guess Again” Utah Bar Journal (2009)
Note, An Inequitable Jury Instruction on the Taxability of Personal Injury Damage Awards: Blanchfield v. Dennis, 1983 BYU L. Rev. 159–72
“Mediation and the Legal System: New Tricks for an Old Dog” Federal Bar Journal/Defense Counsel Journal

Personal
Founding Director, Midlothian Education Foundation
Wood Badge, Circle Ten Council, Boy Scouts of America

Distinctions and Awards
AV Rating, Martindale-Hubbell
Recognized for legal writing in Bryan A. Garner, Legal Writing in Plain English (University of Chicago Press 2001)

Practicing: Business & Commercial Law, Government Relations, Labor & Employment Law, Natural Resources and Trademark & Unfair Business Practices