JASON LYON
Partner
Hahn & Hahn LLP
Jason Lyon is a litigation partner at Hahn & Hahn LLP. His practice focuses on business litigation, with an emphasis on partnership and closely held business disputes. Prior to joining Hahn & Hahn, Lyon was an attorney with Latham & Watkins, practicing in the complex commercial litigation and securities litigation groups.
Lyon’s unique career journey, beginning with his prior profession as a documentary film producer and leading to his current position as the first openly LGBTQ+ attorney and partner for a well-respected firm with a 125-year history, has been nothing less than cinematic. After establishing his own successful business writing creative briefs for directors, Lyon found himself longing for a more challenging occupation and embarked on a career in law.
Lyon’s experience as an advocate for diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility began with his personal in the fight for marriage equality. He has had a lifelong commitment to being visible as an openly LGBTQ professional/parent/public official and demonstrating a spirit of authenticity in his personal identity. Before the rise of a national conversation on LGBTQ+ rights, Lyon wrote a series of articles on marriage equality in the Manhattan Religious Observer in the late 1990s. From 2003-2005, Lyon became the founder of the Los Angeles Neighborhood Council LGBT caucus and led a successful grassroots campaign to build neighborhood-based support for marriage equality in the early 2000s, which culminated in successfully lobbying the City of Los Angeles to declare support for marriage equality in 2005 – fully 10 years before Obergefell made marriage equality the law of the land across the US.
