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Casey Alan Coyle is a shareholder and co-chair of the Firm’s Litigation Group, the Managing Shareholder of the Firm’s Harrisburg Office, and past co-chair of the Appellate Practice Group. He concentrates his practice on complex commercial litigation and appellate law.

Mr. Coyle regularly represents businesses in disputes before the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, Cumberland County Court of Common Pleas, Dauphin County Court of Common Pleas, and other state and federal trial courts in Pennsylvania. He focuses his commercial litigation practice on cases involving breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duties, civil conspiracy, emergency injunctions, non-competition/non-solicitation agreements, shareholder litigation, and theft of trade secrets. He also represents clients in matters brought before the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court as part of its original jurisdiction.

Beyond his trial work, Mr. Coyle frequently represents businesses, trade associations, and other clients in state and federal appellate courts. Over his career, he has represented either a party or an amicus curiae in 15 appeals before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Mr. Coyle has successfully petitioned the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to grant review of an appeal—commonly known as “allocatur”—on six different occasions. In addition, he has presented oral argument before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court, and Pennsylvania Superior Court.

Background

Prior to joining Babst Calland, Mr. Coyle was a partner at a national law firm with offices throughout the eastern U.S. While there, he served as the Chair of the firm’s Appellate Practice Working Group. Before entering private practice, he served as a law clerk for the Honorable Thomas G. Saylor, Chief Justice Emeritus of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, for nearly two and a half years.

Mr. Coyle graduated from the Temple University Beasley School of Law in 2009, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Temple Journal of Science, Technology & Environmental Law. He earned his B.A. in Journalism, with distinction, from the Pennsylvania State University in 2006. During his time there, he was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society and spent a semester in Washington, D.C., interning for CNN’s Capital Gang.

Memberships and Affiliations

Mr. Coyle is licensed to practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He is also admitted before the United States Courts of Appeals for the Third and Sixth Circuits, and the United States District Courts for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, District of New Jersey, and Eastern District of Wisconsin.

Mr. Coyle is the immediate past President of the Middle District of Pennsylvania Chapter of the Federal Bar Association (FBA). He currently serves as the Co-Chair of the Chapter’s CLE Committee, as well as its National Delegate to the FBA. In addition, Mr. Coyle is a member of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania’s Civil Procedural Rules Committee and past member of the Third Circuit Lawyers Advisory Committee. He previously served as the Vice President of the Capital Area Chapter of the Penn State Alumni Association, Vice President of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Penn State Alumni Association, and as the Sponsorship Chair for the Liberty Ball, an annual event held in Philadelphia to benefit the Four Diamonds Fund.

In 2023, Mr. Coyle was invited to become a Fellow of the Foundation of the Federal Bar Association, an honor bestowed upon less than 300 lawyers nationwide that demonstrate commitment to and leadership with the FBA and the legal community.  He was selected to the Pennsylvania Rising Stars list (Thomson Reuters) for Business Litigation for 2015-2020, 2022, and 2023.