Kyle Scholl joined the firm in 2019 and is a trusted legal advisor whose practice focuses primarily on commercial real estate and complex business transactions across the United States. He represents a broad range of clients, including large national corporations, regional companies, and individual investors.
Kyle regularly assists clients with negotiating, administering, and closing commercial real estate purchase and sale transactions ranging from thousands of dollars to multi-million and even billion-dollar deals. His real estate practice also includes negotiating and preparing a wide variety of commercial lease agreements such as land leases, warehouse leases, showroom and storage facility leases, build-to-suit leases, and reverse build-to-suit leases, among others. Kyle also advises clients in transactions and agreements involving major national and regional railroad companies.
In addition to real estate, Kyle supports the firm’s mergers and acquisitions practice, having contributed to transactions ranging from multi-million-dollar acquisitions to a recent billion-dollar deal. He also continues to assist in selected litigation matters, leveraging his extensive background in insurance defense and complex litigation developed prior to joining Leo Law Firm.
Before joining Leo Law Firm in 2019, Kyle practiced in Birmingham and Huntsville, Alabama, representing businesses and insurers in complex litigation and insurance matters, where he handled all aspects of litigation from initial filings through settlement negotiations and trial. Additionally, Kyle clerked for several prestigious institutions, including the Alabama Attorney General’s Office (Special Prosecutions and Consumer Protection Divisions) and various respected law firms across Alabama.
Kyle earned his Juris Doctor from Cumberland School of Law at Samford University. During law school, he served as Senior Editor of the Cumberland Law Review, a competing member of Cumberland’s National Trial Team, and the Director of the Parham H. Williams Trial Competition. Kyle won Cumberland’s James O. Haley Federal Trial Competition two consecutive years and was twice selected to receive the Nat Bryan ABOTA award for trial advocacy. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Auburn University, where he was active in various student leadership roles, including as an officer and competing member of Auburn’s Mock Trial Team.
Kyle is also actively involved in his community. He previously served several years on the Board of the Huntsville Havoc Booster Club, a nonprofit organization supporting professional hockey in Huntsville, and continues to serve on his neighborhood’s nonprofit board. He occasionally represents clients on a pro bono basis and engages in local volunteer work to give back to the community.
Outside of the office, Kyle enjoys traveling, golfing, and spending time with his wife, Alyson, and their two children.
“No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it. Obedience to the law is demanded as a right, not asked as a favor.” – Theodore Roosevelt
