Christopher F. Lyon
Partner
Christopher F. Lyon focuses his practice on counseling and defending insurance agents and brokers, accountants, architects, lawyers, and other professionals in a variety of professional liability claims. He represents clients in all stages of the claims-handling process, from inception through trial and appeal, including arbitration and mediation. Chris defends clients before state and federal courts across New York and New Jersey, including the New York Supreme Court.
As a law student, Chris served as an intern for the Honorable Xavier Rodriguez in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, as a law clerk to the Honorable Judd J. Carhart in the Massachusetts Appeals Court, and as an intern for the Honorable Bruce E. Scheckowitz in the Kings County Housing Court.
Related Areas
Industries
Experience Highlights
- Represented, through trial, a corporation as the plaintiff-employer in a lawsuit against former employee-manager for breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, conversion, and tortious interference with business relations arising from the employee’s improper diversion of customers to his own personal side business in competition with the plaintiff
- Attained dismissal following Rule 12(b)(2) and 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss in representation of a Canadian accounting firm in action for accounting malpractice
- Attained summary judgment on behalf of an insurance brokerage client with the court finding no duty owed by the client and that the plaintiff had no damages due to its fractional ownership of the entity holding the insurable interest in the property
Honors & Awards
Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating: AV Preeminent
New York Metro Super Lawyers Rising Stars, 2020-21
Admissions
- New York
- New Jersey
- U.S. District Courts for the Eastern, Western, Northern, and Southern Districts of New York
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Education
- Boston University School of Law, J.D., 2013
- Boston University International Law Journal: Senior Articles Editor
- Sutherland Cup Moot Court Team: Swing Speaker
- ABA Arbitration Competition Team: Student Coach
- Civil Litigation Clinic
- The University of Texas at San Antonio, B.A., Business Administration, 2010
- Student Government Association: Senior Senator
Training and Certifications
- Private Pilot Certificate for Airplane Single-Engine Land (ASEL)
Publications & Presentations
- “Disasters, Catastrophic Events, and Pandemic: Identifying and Understanding the Agent/Broker E&O Risks and Preparing to Defense the Coming Wave of Claims,” PLUS Journal, Spring/Summer 2020
- “Which Lawyer Was Responsible?” (Co-Author), PLUS Journal, 3rd Quarter 2019
Recent Insights
January 4, 2022
September 30, 2021
September 25, 2019
May 6, 2019