Kyle J. Trent
Kyle J. Trent is a partner with Apruzzese, McDermott, Mastro, and Murphy who focuses his practice on the representation of employers, particularly in the areas of Labor and Employment, Education, and Public Sector Law. Kyle is a graduate of Rutgers School of Law, where he was an Editor of the Rutgers Law Review, a Dean’s Merit Scholar, and an Essex County Bar Foundation Scholar. He also served as a Teaching Associate in the Legal Research and Writing Program and a Teaching Assistant in the Minority Student Program.
Kyle began his legal career working for more than three years in the Legal Research Unit at the New Jersey Office of Administrative Law, where he drafted legal memoranda in hundreds of contested cases transmitted from State agencies, including numerous employment matters transmitted from the Civil Service Commission, education matters transmitted from the Commissioner of Education, and special education matters transmitted from the Office of Special Education Programs. Before joining Apruzzese, McDermott, Mastro & Murphy, Kyle worked in the Education Department at a mid-sized law firm focusing on the representation of school boards.
Kyle serves as general, labor, and/or special counsel to school board, municipal, and county clients in addition to his work representing the firm’s private sector clients in litigation and other matters. He has filed, responded to, and participated in a wide variety of administrative, judicial, and arbitration matters on behalf of employers involving discrimination and retaliation claims, wrongful discharge, breach of contract, employee and union grievances, and discipline appeals. He also regularly represents and counsels clients in special education litigation, the Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act, tenure matters, school residency, labor negotiations, student records, school board governance, the School Ethics Act, the Local Public Contracts Law, the Public School Contracts Law, student transportation, the Open Public Records Act, the Open Public Meetings Act, and other employment and education related issues. His work has been published in the New Jersey Lawyer and School Leader magazines and the New Jersey Labor and Employment Law Quarterly.
Education:
- Rutgers School of Law, J.D.
- University of Connecticut, B.A.
Bar Admission:
- New Jersey
- New York
- United States District Court of New Jersey
Practice Areas:
- Labor and Employment Law
- Education Law
- Special Education Law
- Government Law
- Administrative Law
Honors and Recognitions:
- Editor, Rutgers Law Review, Rutgers School of Law – Newark
- Dean’s Merit Scholar (2008-2011), Rutgers School of Law – Newark
- Essex County Bar Foundation Scholar (2009-2010)
- Named a “Rising Star” by New Jersey Super Lawyers (annually from 2017 – 2026)
Professional Memberships:
- New Jersey Association of School Attorneys
- New Jersey Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section
Events and Activities:
- Teaching Associate, Legal Research & Writing Program, Rutgers School of Law – Newark
- Teaching Assistant, Minority Student Program, Rutgers School of Law – Newark
- Judicial Intern to The Honorable Jaynee LaVecchia, Associate Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court
Published Works:
- Educated Justice: Juvenile Justice and the Schools, New Jersey Lawyer, New Jersey State Bar Association, October 2015 (co-author)
- Special Education and the Law: Recent Trends and Developments, School Leader, New Jersey School Boards Association, Vol. 47, No. 1, July/August 2016 (contributor)
- Special Conditions Required to Justify Presence of Third Parties or Recording Devices During Independent Medical Examinations, New Jersey Employment Law Quarterly, 44 N.J. Lab. & Emp. L.Q., No. 1, 2022
- State Supreme Court Weighs In on Third-Party Observers and Recordings of Independent Medical Examinations, New Jersey Labor and Employment Law Quarterly, 45 N.J. Lab. & Emp. L.Q., No. 1, 2023
- Third-Party Recordings of Defense Medical Examinations In a Post-DiFiore World, New Jersey Labor and Employment Law Quarterly, 47 N.J. Lab. & Emp. L.Q., No. 3, 2025
