Paul J. Kyed, PH.D., PE
Associate

Denver Office



Commercial Litigation

Products Liability

Appellate

303-295-8477

pjkyed@hollandhart.com

Dr. Kyed is a member of the commercial litigation group. He represents individuals and corporations in complex cases involving commercial litigation, products liability, and appeals. Prior to joining Holland & Hart, Dr. Kyed served a one-year clerkship with Justice Nathan B. Coats of the Colorado Supreme Court.

During law school, Dr. Kyed interned for one summer in the criminal division of the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Colorado. He also spent two years representing children in dependency and neglect proceedings as a student guardian ad litem supervised by the Rocky Mountain Children's Law Center. In his final year of law school, he served as editor-in-chief of the Denver University Law Review.

Prior to attending law school, Dr. Kyed worked for nine years as a research engineer at Bethlehem Steel's Homer Research Laboratories in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. In that capacity, Dr. Kyed acquired expertise in the roll forming of coated steel roofing panels and worked on-site with numerous customers in the metal building industry to help resolve their steel fabrication issues. In addition, he carried out field and laboratory investigations of corrosion failures of steel buildings; successfully worked with OSHA on behalf of the entire North American steel industry to improve the safety of workers who walk on steel products during building construction; and provided extensive laboratory and steel mill production support for the introduction of a new coated steel roofing product, GalvalumePlus®. Dr. Kyed successfully completed four weeks of training in GE's "six sigma" industrial troubleshooting methodology and led joint management and union worker "six sigma" teams whose efforts resulted in significant production cost savings at Bethlehem Steel.

Dr. Kyed is admitted to practice in the Federal District Court for the District of Colorado and the Federal District Court for Eastern District of Texas.

HONORS

Young Engineer of the Year, Pennsylvania Society of Professional Engineers, 1998

Outstanding Young Member, ASMInternational, Pennsylvania Lehigh Valley Chapter, 1997

Licensed Professional Engineer (PE), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Colorado Bar Association

ASMInternational (ASMInternational is an international association of metallurgical engineers)

PUBLICATIONS AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

Moderator, "Medical Marijuana: Impact on Business," Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce Gold Program Panel, March 2010.

"What Every Engineer Should Know About Being an Expert Witness (And Other Legal Lessons for Engineers)," Colorado School of Mines Research Seminar Series, February 28, 2008.

Paul Kyed, Crawford v. Washington: Child Victims of Sex Crimes in Colorado and the United States Supreme Court's Revised Approach to the Confrontation Clause, 82 Denv. U. L. Rev. 427 (2004).

EDUCATION

University of Denver College of Law J.D. 2006
- Order of St. Ives

Colorado School of Mines Ph.D. 1994
- Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

Stanford University M.S. 1991
- Materials, Science & Engineering

Colorado School of Mines B.S. 1989
- Metallurgical and Materials Engineering