Christopher Lyons

Christopher Lyons is an associate in the firm’s Education Law and Municipal Law Practice Groups. Working out of the firm’s New Providence, New Jersey office, Chris assists school district and municipal clients in a wide range of matters including day-to-day legal issues, labor and employment, discipline and harassment, governance, OPRA, and public contracting.

Before joining the firm, Chris served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Andrea G. Carter of the Middlesex County Superior Court – Criminal Division. Before that, he served as a law clerk for a private law firm, as well as the Office of the New Jersey Attorney General and Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

Chris received his B.A. in political science from West Virginia University and his J.D. from Rutgers Law School – Newark. While in law school, Chris was Associate Editor of the Rutgers Law Record, and a member of the Student Bar Association and Public Interest Law Forum.

He is admitted to practice in New Jersey.