Ellen Lyons Email & Phone Number

Ellen Lyons has two decades of experience helping business people obtain favorable outcomes for their businesses.Ms. Lyons listens to her client's goals, responds quickly, and effectively manages teams. She has the people skills, technical skills and strategic knowledge to get a deal done or a case resolved. Ms. Lyons concentrates her practice in accounting, banking/lending, and consumer finance matters. She is a go-to person with regard to offers of judgment/proposals for settlement made under Florida or federal law.MS. Lyons handles matters relating to banking laws, FDCPA, TCPA, UDAAP, FCRA, TILA and RESPA, as well as the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct, GAAS, GAAP. She has extensively litigated Regulation X, Section 8 of RESPA. Ms. Lyons has also handled hedge fund and securities matters. Ms. Lyons has tried breach of contract, negligence, unfair and deceptive trade practices, trade secret, embezzlement and fraud cases. She has arbitrated rescission, breach of contract and fraud cases. Ms. Lyons is rated by Martindale-Hubbell as A-V Preeminent. She has been listed as one of Tampa Bay's Top Lawyers and is a member of the Florida Trend Legal Elite. Further, she serves as General Counsel of The Alpha House of Tampa, a safe home for homeless pregnant women and mothers with young children. Serving as General Counsel has given her more of a client's perspective as it relates to minimizing legal costs, reporting to, and working with a board of directors, and optimizing the speed of results. Ms. Lyons has written multiple articles with regard to offers of judgment, proposals for settlement, banking regulations and practices. A link to some of her articles is here: https://www.carltonfields.com/elyons/