Kyle Staples

• Positioned 29-person legal team enabling excellence in legal support for 5th busiest legal office in enterprise assisting 120 clients per month.

• Developed and allocated $80K operating budget and $150K travel expenses ensuring resource availability and mobility/accommodations for court witnesses.

• Partnered with attorneys to analyze, administer, and authorize over 160 legal actions; heightened case management capabilities, workflow processing, and compliance initiatives.

• Propelled team to top ratings by managing internal/external audit projects ensuring legal and administrative compliance across multi-faceted operations and 126 inspection items.

• Directed 23 legal services personnel in areas of administrative law, military justice, operational law, claims and office management.
• Chief advisor to executive leaders, providing over 400 hours of leadership to 397 personnel in multiple professional areas.
• Established training program for 28 legal professionals, identifying and preserving more than 700 training milestones.
• Conducts legal research by reviewing and analyzing available precedents and makes final legal recommendations for Staff Judge Advocate (SJA) or senior attorney.

• Guided legal operations for enterprise’s third largest legal office; enabled legal consultation and policy support for 3 major organizations, 52 business units, and 27K-person workforce positioned across 6 regions.
• Supervised contract management team with oversight of 2K Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and $9B contract portfolio enabling support for DoD's next generation weapon systems.
• Oversaw in-house legal activities including processing 2.7K notarized documents, 2.9K Power of Attorney records, saving client expenses in excess of $400K.

• Acted as a defense team member by assisting attorneys with investigating leads, conducting witness interviews, reviewing case status, and developing case strategy
• Prepared written communications, processes correspondence and maintained suspense files
• Prepared and processed all documentation/evidence required for courts-martial, Article 15 actions, and discharge boards.

• Oversaw execution of 160 legal actions and managing 105 victim and witness case files by developing tracking and contact logs.
• Managed 14-member tax assistance team, assisting over 330 clients and saving personnel more than $886K while achieving 100% IRS Audit accuracy.
• Performed substantive research for federal and state statutes, regulations, cases, and policies to draft legal briefs, attorney motions, opposition to defense motions, and correspondence for General Counsel/Lead Attorney actions.

• Managed serviceability, maintenance, and quality assurance work-orders on material stockpile and aircraft engines valued at more than $11B.
• Maintained 68 storage and maintenance facilities, preventing loss of explosive licensure, and ensuring daily operations on all facilities valued at more than $15M.
• Oversaw personnel readiness and deployment requirements for over 630 members in support of military missions worldwide.
• Operated and performed user maintenance on 146 vehicles and handling equipment worth over $9.5M.