Clyde is a tireless advocate for those who have suffered injustice at the hands of government officials. He has successfully litigated complex civil rights matters in state and federal courts across New York, with a focus on cases involving misconduct by police and prison officials, wrongful convictions, and other abuses of authority.

Clyde grew up in Northern Michigan and studied English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, graduating summa cum laude. After school, he worked for several years at a law firm specializing in civil rights matters arising from the child welfare system, before attending Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law on a merit scholarship, where he served on the Cardozo Law Review, graduated magna cum laude, and was elected to the Order of the Coif.

During law school, Clyde gained firsthand experience handling wrongful conviction cases during a year-long internship at The Innocence Project and a summer at Neufeld Scheck Brustin Hoffmann & Freudenberger, LLP. He also contributed research and editorial assistance to co-founder Barry Scheck’s preface to the forty-eighth edition of the Georgetown Law Journal’s Annual Review of Criminal Procedure and spent a semester as a full-time student law clerk for District Judge Gregory H. Woods of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Following graduation, Clyde honed his litigation skills at a boutique civil rights firm before leaving in 2023 to start KCR. He is admitted to practice in New York, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Eastern, Northern, Southern, and Western Districts of New York.

Notable Results:

• Successfully defended the appeal of a $500,000 jury verdict for a client brutally assaulted by correction officers.

• Obtained a verdict after trial finding the State of New York liable for excessive force and sexual abuse perpetrated by correction officers during a strip frisk, and a precedent-setting appellate decision affirming the result.

• Secured a six-figure settlement for a client falsely arrested for attempting to withdraw funds from her own bank account.

• Successfully overturned an adverse jury verdict and obtained an order for a new trial based on opposing counsel’s improper and prejudicial conduct.

Publications:

Note, The New York Prosecutorial Conduct Commission and the Dawn of a New Era of Reform for Prosecutors, 2020 Cardozo L. Rev. De Novo 55.