Extensive Experience: Complex Personal Injury & Class Action
The Lyon Firm is a Cincinnati, Ohio-based law firm, representing individuals nationwide in class action, product liability, and toxic exposure litigation. The Lyon Firm includes five attorneys and four staff members. Our attorneys are licensed in Ohio, California, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, and Arizona, as well as numerous federal courts.
Since its founding in 2006, the firm has been appointed by courts across the country to serve in leadership roles, including Lead Class Counsel and positions on Plaintiffs’ Executive and Steering Committees in a wide range of class actions. These cases have included data breaches, pixel tracking, TCPA violations, tuition reimbursement claims, antitrust violations, and other consumer protection matters.
The Lyon Firm has participated in over 200 consumer class actions and more than 40 Multi-District Litigations (MDLs) in both federal and state courts. The firm has represented thousands of clients from all fifty states in high-impact cases involving medical devices, pharmaceutical products, toxic exposures, and emerging issues in data privacy and consumer fraud.
Recently, The Lyon Firm has been a leader in the data privacy space, focusing much of our time on data security, unlawful tracking, and data misuse litigation involving novel legal theories and issues related to the interrelationship and requisite balance between consumer privacy and technological advancements.
Many of these privacy litigation matters involve industry-wide failures in the healthcare and financial services industries, resulting in an unprecedented loss of personal privacy and consumer value. Collectively, The Lyon Firm has assisted in reaching class-wide settlements of more than $200,000,000 in privacy matters over the past three years.
Some of the firm’s more recent high-profile cases include Tracy v. Elekta (N.D. Ga.), which resulted in an $8.9 million common fund settlement involving the unauthorized disclosure of genetic information; In Re Advocate Aurora Pixel Litigation (E.D. Wis.), a $12 million settlement related to the use of tracking technology on hospital websites that transmitted patient health information to third parties such as Facebook and Google, for which final approval has been granted; and Allen et al. v. Novant Health, Inc. (M.D.N.C.), a $6.66 million common fund settlement arising from similar tracking technologies on hospital web properties, also receiving final approval.
In addition, The Lyon Firm members have dedicated much of their careers to representing individual plaintiffs in catastrophic single-event litigation against the largest companies and healthcare systems in the world.
The single event litigation has required The Lyon Firm to consistently learn new subject matters, develop impactful case themes, design unique discovery plans, and work alongside industry experts. The single-event cases have involved a variety of legal, medical, and engineering issues arising from automotive product defects, firearm defects, medical malpractice, workplace injuries, consumer product toxic exposure (talc and Roundup), environmental contamination, and industrial exposure (asbestos, lead, radiation, benzene, and TCE).
This rewarding work has included matters of first impression and some of the largest known recoveries in venue histories, which have provided families with answers to difficult questions of liability and assisted with long-term medical needs and compensation for significant financial and personal loss.
Driving 6,000 Miles to Know a Client.
Mr. Lyon regularly visits clients in their homes and the hospital, and he attends memorials and family celebrations to gain perspective on the lives of his clients. In one case, Mr. Lyon drove 6,000 miles during the course of the case for client meetings and investigative work. If it takes driving across the country twice to know our clients, then that is the effort we are willing to make to win.
Our Approach:
Preserving Evidence:
Immediately, we take the appropriate steps to secure the critical evidence working with top tiered experts and labs to store evidence properly.
Home Visits:
We often visit our clients homes to spend time with the client and their family to understand how the injury has impacted their life. In certain cases, the home is where the evidence lies –e..g, We have personally visited homes in the inner city of Cincinnati to document the dilapidated conditions to help children suffering brain injuries from lead poisoning.
Visiting Accident Scenes:
Understanding how accidents have occurred requires lawyers to get out of the office and into the field. We cannot learn what we need to know by staying behind the desk. As a matter of course, we visit the scene of the accident. This method has taken us into the hills of Appalachia to recover the remnants of a seat belt fragment, without which a case on behalf of a young girl who was paralyzed in the accident could not have proceeded with her case against General Motors.
