Christopher V. Carlyle

Christopher Carlyle has been Board Certified in Appellate Practice by The Florida Bar since 2006—an achievement currently held by only 210 attorneys statewide. He has been consistently honored among Florida Trend’s Legal Elite since 2009 and has earned recognition as a Florida Super Lawyer by Thomson Reuters for 17 consecutive years. Mr. Carlyle also holds an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell, the organization’s highest distinction for professional excellence.

Mr. Carlyle is active within the Florida Bar and served as Chair of the Florida Bar’s Appellate Practice Section in 2015-2016. He also served as the Section’s Chair-Elect, Vice-Chair, Secretary/Treasurer and Continuing Legal Education Chair, and he continues to serve on the Section’s Executive Council. Mr. Carlyle spent six years (2009-2015) on the Florida Bar’s Appellate Rules Committee, including serving as that group’s secretary and parliamentarian. Additionally, he was a member of the Florida Bar’s Appellate Certification Committee (2016-2019) where he served as Vice Chair.

Since 2022 Mr. Carlyle has served as a Visiting Professor of Law at Florida A&M University College of Law where he teaches Appellate Advocacy.

Mr. Carlyle is an extremely experienced appellate practitioner as well as having a background in commercial litigation. Mr. Carlyle has handled cases in all six of Florida’s District Courts of Appeal, the Supreme Court of Florida, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States. Most notably, Mr. Carlyle was involved in Koontz v. St. John’s River Water Management District, 133 S. Ct. 2586 (2013), a groundbreaking decision concerning property rights.

Mr. Carlyle earned his Juris Doctorate, cum laude, from the Pepperdine University School of Law (1993) where he was Associate Editor of the Pepperdine Law Review, and where he was named to the Dean’s List all three years. He received B.A. in political science from San Diego State University (1987).