Background
Lyon, James B. was born in 1930 in New York, New York, United States.
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James B. Lyon
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Amherst College (Bachelor of Arts, 1952). Yale University (Bachelor of Laws, 1955).
Career
Worked at Murtha, Cullina, Richter and Pinney. Admitted to the bar, 1955, Connecticut Phi Beta Kappa. Lecturer 1994 and 1995: Conferences on Tax Planning for the Charitable Sector, New York University on Federal Taxation.
Member: Advisory Commander, 1974-1985, New York University Institute on Federal
Taxation; Commander on Exempt Organizations, Section on Taxation, 1982. Chair., Subcomm. on Museums and Other Cultural Organizations, American
Bar Association Member: Internal Revenue Service Northeast (Brooklyn) Key District, Exempt Organization Liaison Group, 1993. Editorial Board Connecticut
Law Trib.; Mini-Editorial Advisory Board, Trusts & Estates Magazine--Charitable Giving.
American Law Institute. Fellow: American College of Tax Counsel.
American Bar Foundation.
Murtha, Cullina, Richter and Pinney is a business-oriented law firm with offices in Hartford and New Haven, Connecticut.
With more than 70 attorneys, the firm offers legal services in most practice areas that are likely to be of interest to companies doing business in the United States on a transactional or permanent basis, including corporate, tax, financing, and mergers and acquisitions law. Among the firm"s specialty groups is its Environmental Practice Group, whose 11 lawyers and environmental analysts have extensive experience in dealing with the complex web of federal and state environmental laws that affect doing business in the United States.
Achievements
Membership
Member: Advisory Commander, 1974-1985, New York University Institute on Federal Taxation; Commander on Exempt Organizations, Section on Taxation, 1982. Chair., Subcomm. on Museums and Other Cultural Organizations, American
Bar Association Member: Internal Revenue Service Northeast (Brooklyn) Key District, Exempt Organization Liaison Group, 1993.
Editorial Board Connecticut Law Trib.; Mini-Editorial Advisory Board, Trusts & Estates Magazine--Charitable Giving.
American Law Institute; Fellow: American
College of Tax Counsel. American Bar Foundation.
