W. Kyle Tayman

Kyle Tayman is a partner in the firm’s Financial Services, Consumer Financial Services Enforcement and Litigation, Fintech, Data, Privacy & Cybersecurity, and Digital Currency & Blockchain practices. Kyle regularly represents clients in the financial services, banking, technology, AI, digital marketing, and other industries in government investigations and enforcement actions, complex consumer financial and privacy class actions, mass arbitrations, and complex litigation. He frequently counsels clients on regulatory compliance enforcement and litigation risk avoidance with respect to federal and state consumer protection, privacy, and marketing laws.

Kyle is the lead editor of Goodwin’s Consumer Finance Insights blog, which is the marketplace’s first resource for real-time reporting on the full range of public federal and state consumer finance enforcement activity. He regularly publishes and speaks on current enforcement and litigation trends, serves on the firm’s committee for attorney development, and is a board member for a national non-profit focused on legal issues for homelessness. He joined Goodwin in 2008.

As trusted legal counsel, Kyle represents clients in significant government enforcement and litigation matters against the CFPB, DOJ, FTC, FDIC, FRB, HUD, and state financial services, consumer protection, privacy, and cybersecurity agencies. He regularly defends clients in complex commercial litigation and class action matters at the trial and appellate levels of federal and state courts. Kyle has expertise representing and advising clients on federal and state consumer protection, lending, fair lending and privacy laws, including UDAAP / UDAP, TCPA, TSR, FCRA, TILA, FDCPA, CIPA, CCPA, CCRAA, ROSCA, RESPA, and ECOA.

Kyle is a board member of the National Homeless Law Center. He is also a member of the Mortgage Bankers Association and American Bar Association.

During law school, Kyle served as a law clerk at an international trade law firm in Washington, DC.

Kyle was a 2021 recommended lawyer for Financial Services: Litigation and a 2025 recommended lawyer for Cyber Law (including data privacy and data protection) by The Legal 500. While attending law school, Kyle was on the executive board for the Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy.

Kyle is an author and contributor to Goodwin’s annual Consumer Finance Year-in-Review, providing commentary and lessons learned on consumer financial services government enforcement and litigation matters.

Kyle’s recent speaking engagements include:

• Speaker, “Consumer Finance 2026 Webinar: What to Watch,” Webinar, April 2026
• Speaker, “What’s Happening in Washington?” AFC Learning Webinar, June 2025
• Speaker, “The New Consumer Financial Services Landscape for 2025,” Goodwin Webinar, April 2025
• Speaker, “Mass Arbitration: Processing Claims, Managing and Securing Information, Resolving Underlying Disputes,” Strafford Webinar, March 2025
• Speaker, “Keeping the Pulse: Regulatory Outlook Under the New Administration,” AFC Learning Webinar, February 2025
• Speaker, “Consumer Financial Services: Emerging Issues for 2024,” Goodwin Webinar, March 2024
• Speaker, “Hot Button Issues for Consumer Protection Enforcement and Litigation in 2023,” Goodwin Webinar, January 2023
• Presenter, “The Supreme Court’s Landmark Business-Friendly TCPA “Autodialer” Definition,” Goodwin Webinar, April 2021
• Presenter, “Growing TCPA Litigation Trends In The Cannabis Industry,” Goodwin Webinar, August 2020
• Presenter, “Supreme Court and Appellate Courts Year in Review,” Goodwin Webinar, September 2019
• Speaker, “2017 Consumer Finance Year in Review and 2018 Predictions,” Consero 2018 Financial Services & Insurance Information Forum, April 2018

Kyle’s recent publications include:

• Co-Author, “Updated AAA Rules and Fees Could Change the Mass Arbitration Landscape,” Goodwin Client Alert, January 24, 2024
• Co-Author, “FCC Proposes New, Stricter TCPA Rules That Would Limit Lead Generation to One-Company Consent,” Goodwin Client Alert, December 11, 2023
• Co-Author, “Internet Privacy Litigation Continues to Create Uncertainty for Websites Using Third-Party Technology while Expanding to More States,” Goodwin Client Alert, October 18, 2023
• Co-Author, “Florida Amends Mini-TCPA, Clarifies Confusion,” Goodwin Client Alert, June 22, 2023
• Co-Author, “California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) Decisions Continue to Create Uncertainty for Websites Using Third-Party Technology,” Goodwin Client Alert, June 8, 2023
• Co-Author, “Mini-TCPA Laws You Should Know and That May Be Coming Soon in 2023,” Westlaw Today, March 10, 2023
• Co-Author, “Agency Actions Show Shared Focus On Digital Ad Tactics,” Law 360, February 1, 2023
• Co-Author, “What To Expect From CFPB's Entry Into Cryptocurrency Arena,” Law 360, June 6, 2022
• Co-Author, “Florida’s Telephone Solicitation Act Survives First Constitutional Challenge,” Goodwin Client Alert, May 31, 2022
• Co-Author, “Florida Tightens Telemarketing Restrictions In Wake of Duguid Ruling,” Goodwin Client Alert, July 2021
• Co-Author, “A View From Inside: A Guide to NYDFS Investigations,” Goodwin’s Periodic Review of Special Legal Developments Affecting Lending and Other Financial Institutions, February 2021
• Co-Author, “A View From Inside: A Guide to CFPB Investigations,” The Review of Banking & Financial Services, January 2021
• Co-Author, “FCC’S Year-End TCPA Orders Place New Limitations On Automated & Prerecorded Calls,” JDSupra, January 2021
• Co-Author, “U.S. Cannabis Companies Texting & Calling Customers are Growing Targets of Telephone Consumer Protection Act Lawsuits,” JDSupra, June 2020
• Co-Author, “Trends in U.S. Paycheck Protection Program Class Actions,” JDSupra, April 2020
• Co-Author, “COVID-19 and Consumer Financial Services: Navigating New U.S. and State Orders, Rules, Laws, Guidance, and Pleas,” Goodwin Client Alert, March 2020
• Co-Author, “Consumer Finance 2019 Year in Review,” Goodwin Insights, March 2020
• Co-Author, “State of Enforcement: Recent Issues and Trends Facing the Financial Services Industry,” Goodwin Insights, April 2019
• Co-Author, “Consumer Finance 2018 Year in Review,” Goodwin Insights, February 2019
• Co-Author, “D.C. Circuit Rules in Long-Awaited Decision on the TCPA in ACA International V. FCC,” Goodwin Client Alert, March 2018