Geoffrey Cleveland Lyon

Lyon Law represents only employees in claims of wrongful termination, sex and race harassment, disability and medical leave discrimination and whistleblower retaliation.

Lyon Law and attorney Geoffrey Lyon have 4 of the top employment discrimination settlements in California in 2022, and several top 50 and 100 jury verdicts and settlements in California and the United States in recent years. In over 35 years Lyon Law has litigated thousands of cases and dozens of trials, including wrongful termination trials against Fortune 500 companies. Attorney Lyon is named a SuperLawyer by Thomson-Reuters-Westlaw limited to the top 5% of attorneys, and a Board Certified Civil Trial Attorney, a certification held by less than 1% of attorneys. Lyon did six jury trials in 2022 including a $1.2 million verdict for a one-year employee making less than $20 per hour. (Results vary depending on the unique facts of a given case.)

Attorney Lyon has attended trial colleges of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, California Employment Lawyers Association, Jerry Spence, Trojan Horse, Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, and Trial Lawyers University. He previously worked for a nationwide law firm, taught legal writing at LSU Law School, clerked for judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (covering Florida, Alabama and Georgia), and the Idaho Supreme Court, including death penalty cases, interned with the Minnesota Court of Appeals, was Student Director of the Federal Income Tax Clinic at the University of Minnesota Law School, and was previously a single and multi-engine, instrument and commercial flight instructor.