Ted Lyon
VerifiedAbout Ted Lyon
Ted B. Lyon, Esq. is the Managing Partner of Loncar Lyon Jenkins with over 48 years of litigation experience and more than 150 jury trials. He is recognized as one of Texas's most preeminent experts in complex litigation across tort law disciplines, including personal injury, wrongful death, products liability, and catastrophic injury matters.
Lyon has been featured on Good Morning America, 60 Minutes II, and NBC Dateline, and profiled in Texas Lawyer, The National Law Journal, and D Magazine. He is the author of The Real Wolf, exploring the legal and environmental dimensions of wildlife conservation in America. He has earned a remarkable list of honors, including the Super Lawyer designation by Texas Monthly every year from 2003 to 2023, the American Trial Lawyers Association's Top 100 lawyers in America since 2007, D Magazine's Best Lawyer in Dallas in 2024, America's Most Honored Lawyers in 2023, and a Martindale-Hubbell AV rating since 1986. He is a Texas Bar Foundation Fellow (2010) and has been a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates since 1997.
He earned his Juris Doctorate from Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law in 1975 and his Bachelor of Science in Political Science from East Texas State University in 1972. He has been a member of the State Bar of Texas since 1976 and is fluent in English and Spanish.
Notable case results
A Kaufman County jury awarded $296 million in compensatory damages against Koch Industries after a corroded, unmaintained butane pipeline exploded and killed two teenagers on August 24, 1996.
A Dallas jury awarded $84.25 million in 2008 after a 26-foot U-Haul truck with a failed parking brake rolled over Talmadge Waldrip, leaving him bedridden and requiring round-the-clock care.
A Dallas County jury awarded $51 million in August 2024 to a South Dallas mother and her two young children after a corroded boiler exhaust pipe at their apartment complex channeled carbon monoxide into their home in 2015, leaving both children with irreversible brain injuries.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
