The Lyon Firm

The Lyon Firm is a Cincinnati civil litigation firm focusing on plaintiff personal injury and criminal defense. Namely, Joseph Lyon is handling pharmaceutical and medical device and safety restraint defects (i.e., airbarg and seat belt failure). Joseph Lyon also handles medical negligence, nursing home neglect, hospital neglect, auto accidents, and boating accidents. Joseph Lyon is accpeting and focusing efforts and resources on many national cases including but not limited to the kugel mesh hernia patch, seroquel, levaquin, lead poisoning, environmental toxic exposure (TCE, PCE, Benzene), Gadolinium (MRI), and the nuva ring. In addition, the Firm is investigating the effects of Chinese dry wall and other housing defects.  Please see http://www.thelyonfirm.com/ for more information.

The Lyon Firm is dedicated to compassionate and aggressive legal representation on behalf of patients and consumers. Although the majority of the practice consists of medical malpractice, pharmaceutical, medical device and life sciences litigation, Mr. Lyon handles many other types of cases.

Joseph Lyon is rated the highest possible score of 10/10 by AVVO,  the national lawyer rating system, for his experience and ethics. Mr. Lyon works locally as well as nationally with many of the countries top law firms on mass tort projects and individual cases.  He has been involved in multiple seven figure settlements on behalf of individuals and has participated in common benefit work in national litigations that has helped thousands of consumers nationwide. Mr. Lyon has a hands on approach to his practice, and you can be assured you will have his personal involvement throughout your case.

Please Call: 513-381-2333

The Founding of The Lyon Firm

Following many successes with the national pioneer of Mass Tort Litigation, Lopez Hodes, Joseph M. Lyon started The Lyon Firm. The Firm has a dynamic and growing practice and currently works with several law firms around the country trying to improve America's public health through civil action.

The Lyon Firm is committed to the local and national community and has witnessed positive changes resulting from its prior and current cases. We take tremendous pride in the ability to represent individuals, working for them, to create a safer and more secure health care system for the future.

Joseph M. Lyon, Esq.
Prior to opening the Lyon Firm, Mr. Lyon worked on several national mass tort litigations including Ephedra, Guidant/ Medtronic Implantable Defibrillators, Vioxx, and Medtronic Tainted Human Tissue and Allograft. Mr. Lyon continues to be involved in local and national litigation, and he is one of the first attorneys in the country to aggressively pursue the Plavix and Trasylol litigation.

Joseph M. Lyon was born in Cincinnati, OH and attended St. Xavier High School. He first worked in a law practice following graduation from high school, serving as a law clerk for a local civil litigation firm, aiding in the development of medical malpractice and personal injury claims. Joe attended Loyola College in Maryland and graduated with a B.A in political science, having spent both his junior year and half of his senior year studying at the prestigious Katoliek Universiteit (Leuven, Belgium) and St. Louis University (Madrid, Spain) where he focused his studies on International Law and Economics. Based on his early legal experience and experience abroad, Joe was offered a scholarship to attend Chicago-Kent College of Law in the great town of Chicago, Illinois.

Throughout his law school career, Joe worked with several Chicago firms focusing on developing his legal skills in complex medical malpractice and personal injury cases. From 2001 through 2002, Mr. Lyon served as a Judicial Extern for the Honorable William H. Hibbler for the Northern District of Illinois, where he drafted federal court opinions for the court. Joe also served on the Journal for International Law.

Following graduation, Mr. Lyon returned to Cincinnati to begin his legal career, having accepted a position with the small civil litigation firm he worked with following high school, continuing to develop his skills in medical malpractice and catastrophic personal injury. As his interest in the field of products liability grew, Mr. Lyon sought out and accepted a position with the national firm of Lopez, Hodes, Restaino, Milman and Skikos, where he represented hundreds of clients in products liability and medical malpractice cases.

Mr. Lyon has been a part of large scale national mass tort litigations and has personally litigated complex medical malpractice and personal injury cases through discovery and trial. He has served on the American Association for Justice Board of Governors for three years and continues to work alongside lawyers around the country, fighting big business and corporate corruption of our legal system in an attempt to protect patient and consumer rights. He is rated at excellent by AVVO, and he is also a member of the Cincinnati Bar Association, Ohio State Bar Association, Federal Bar Association, American Bar Association, American Constitution Society, and Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers.

Please Call: 513-381-2333

Cincinnati OH Personal Injury Lawyer