James M. Lyons Selected As Best Lawyers' 2010 Denver Bet-The-Company Litigator Of The Year
Date: 01/18/2010
Best Lawyers, the oldest and one of the most respected peer-review publications in the legal profession, has named James M. Lyons as the "Denver Best Lawyers Bet-the-Company Litigator of the Year" for 2010. Only a single lawyer in each specialty in each community is being honored as the "Lawyer of the Year."
After more than a quarter of a century in publication, Best Lawyers is designating "Lawyers of the Year" in high-profile legal specialties in large legal communities. The lawyers being honored have received particularly high ratings in surveys by earning a high level of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity.
Best Lawyers compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. The current, 16th edition of The Best Lawyers in America (2010), is based on more than 2.8 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers.
Mr. Lyons' area of practice is focused in complex business litigation and arbitration of all types, including corporate, securities and insurance law. Mr. Lyons has more than 35 years of courtroom and jury trial experience in state and federal courts. He also has extensive government relations and international trade and diplomatic experience from his work in Ireland and the United Kingdom. Mr. Lyons received his J.D. from DePaul University College of Law and his B.A. from the College of the Holy Cross.