Background
Lyons, Junior, Champ was born on December 6, 1940 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
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Champ Lyons Jr.
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Harvard University (Bachelor of Arts, 1962). University of Alabama (Bachelor of Laws, 1965).
Career
Deposit Guaranty National Bank v. Roper, 445 United States. 326 (1980).Worked at Helmsing, Lyons, Sims & Leach, P.C. (Mobile, Alabama) specializing in General Civil Practice. Trials in all State and Federal Courts. Aviation, Employment Taxation, Securities, Antitrust, Probate, Real Property, Oil and Gas, Corporation, Personal Injury, Insurance and Eminent Domain Law.
Admitted to the bar, 1965, Alabama. 1973, United States. Supreme Court. Editor in Chief, Alabama Law Review, Spring, 1965.
Law Clerk, United States. District Judge Daniel H. Thomas, Southern District of Alabama, 1965-1967. Member and Reporter, 1971-1984 and Chairman, 1984, Supreme Court of Alabama Advisory Committee on Rules of Civil Procedure.
Member and Reporter, 1976, Supreme Court of Alabama Advisory Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure for District Courts. President, Farrah Law Society, 1984-1985. Member, Council, Alabama Law Institute, 1975.
Author: "Alabama Practice," West Publishing Company, 1973, 2d. Education 1986. Member: Mobile and American Bar Associations. Alabama State Bar; American Law Institute.
Fellow, American Bar Foundation. The law firm was founded in the mid-1970's by four law school contemporaries who were partners in larger area firms with the purpose of practicing general trial, tax, estate, and corporate law. After a steady but deliberate growth, the firm is now considered a medium size firm in the state of Alabama and is active in civic and Bar affairs across the state.
Membership
Member, Council, Alabama Law Institute, 1975. Fellow, American Bar Foundation.
