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INDEPENDENT EDITORIAL · FIRM PROFILES · PHOENIX, ARIZONA
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Two Solo Practices, Nearly Seventy Combined Years, Merged Into One Firm
Inside Hirsch & Lyon Accident Law, formed in 2017 when two separate, long-running Phoenix solo injury practices — one led by a State Bar Certified Specialist, the other by a lawyer who has “limited his practice to personal injury and wrongful death” for four decades — combined into a single firm.
BY THE AWESOME ATTORNEYS EDITORIAL TEAM · PHOENIX, ARIZONA · JULY 2026
HIRSCH & LYON ACCIDENT LAW — AT A GLANCE
| FOUNDED BY | Jack H. Hirsch, J.D., University of Arizona (1988), and Gregory Lyon, J.D., Loyola University Chicago (1974), who merged their individual practices in early 2017 |
| FOCUS | Plaintiff-side personal injury and wrongful death exclusively: car, truck, and motorcycle accidents; dog bites; premises liability; product liability; medical malpractice |
| OFFICE | 1212 E. Osborn Rd., Ste. 200, Phoenix, Arizona |
| CERTIFICATION | Jack Hirsch is a State Bar of Arizona Certified Specialist in Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Law |
| SIGNATURE RESULTS | More than $100 million recovered and a stated 99% success rate across more than 10,000 cases handled, combining both attorneys’ careers (per the firm) |
| FEE MODEL | Contingency, with fee percentages the firm advertises as among the lowest in Arizona |
Sources: hirschandlyonaccidentlaw.com (firm website), Super Lawyers, Avvo, Justia. Compiled July 2026.
ORIGIN
Two Careers Before the Merger
Jack Hirsch, an Arizona native, earned his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Arizona, graduating from the James E. Rogers College of Law in 1988. Before becoming a plaintiff’s attorney, he worked in the insurance defense industry — experience the firm says he now applies from the opposite side of the table. He opened his own Law Office of Jack H. Hirsch in 1992 and practiced independently for roughly 25 years before merging his practice with Gregory Lyon’s in early 2017 to form Hirsch & Lyon Accident Law.
Lyon earned his J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law in 1974 and has, per his own biography, “limited” his practice to personal injury and wrongful death representation for more than 40 years, handling automobile accidents, slip and falls, dog bites, product liability, medical malpractice, and wrongful death cases involving brain injuries, fractures, burns, and spinal cord and joint injuries. Combined, the two founders bring nearly 70 years of plaintiff-side injury litigation experience to the merged firm.
PRACTICE
Where Hirsch & Lyon Concentrates
The firm’s practice is exclusively plaintiff-side personal injury and wrongful death, with dedicated practice pages for car, truck, and motorcycle accidents, dog bites, premises liability, and catastrophic injury. Hirsch’s insurance-defense background before 1992, paired with Lyon’s four-decade plaintiff-only career, gives the firm a two-sided view of how insurers evaluate claims from the founders’ own combined experience, similar in structure to other “switched sides” narratives common among Arizona’s plaintiffs’ bar.
TRACK RECORD
The Results Board
Hirsch & Lyon’s marketing materials cite aggregate figures — more than $100 million recovered, over 10,000 cases handled, and a stated 99% success rate — spanning both founders’ careers before and after the 2017 merger. The firm does not publish a case-by-case itemized settlement or verdict table, and Awesome Attorneys was unable to independently verify these aggregate figures beyond the firm’s own reporting.
| METRIC | AS REPORTED BY THE FIRM |
|---|---|
| Total recovered | “$100+ million,” combined across both founders’ careers, unitemized |
| Cases handled | “10,000+,” combined across both founders’ careers |
| Success rate | “99%” (won or settled), as self-reported by the firm |
Source: hirschandlyonaccidentlaw.com. Past results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome in any future matter; every case is unique.
CLIENT VOICE
What Clients Report
One client, describing her mother being hit by a truck in Phoenix, wrote that the family “didn’t know what to do first” but that Hirsch took the case and helped guide them through what she called “a very emotional and scary moment.” She described him visiting her parents in a care home near his own home and continuing to visit even after they moved farther away, calling him “an extremely competent lawyer, and a great human.” Another reviewer described being personally involved in a serious accident and said Hirsch was “quick and responsive” in handling paperwork. A separate reviewer who suffered a dog bite while walking through their neighborhood also credited the firm with prompt handling of the claim. Awesome Attorneys did not locate negative or critical reviews of the firm in its research.
COMMUNITY
Beyond the Courtroom
Hirsch has been a sustaining member of the Arizona Association for Justice, the state’s plaintiffs’-bar organization, since 1993 — more than 30 years of continuous membership, reflecting sustained engagement with the plaintiffs’-bar community beyond his own casework. Awesome Attorneys did not find documentation of specific charitable programs, sponsorships, or nonprofit board seats tied to either founder individually.
RECOGNITION
Peer Standing
Jack Hirsch’s clearest independently meaningful credential is his State Bar of Arizona Certified Specialist designation in Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Law — a genuine, individually attributed specialization the “specialist” label is meant to describe. He has also been selected to Super Lawyers continuously from 2016 through at least 2023, a peer-nominated distinction, and is an Advocate member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, an invitation-only trial-lawyer organization. Awesome Attorneys did not find comparable independent peer-review credentials specifically documented for Gregory Lyon, whose public profile emphasizes tenure and case-type breadth over ranking-style recognition.
THE LAW
The Arizona Backdrop, in Plain English
Readers considering a personal injury or wrongful death claim in Arizona should understand a few ground rules. What follows is general information, not legal advice.
The two-year clock. Arizona’s statute of limitations for personal injury claims is generally two years from the date of injury (A.R.S. § 12-542).
Suing the government is faster and stricter. Claims against Arizona public entities require a formal notice of claim within 180 days (A.R.S. § 12-821.01) and a lawsuit within one year (A.R.S. § 12-821).
Fault is shared, not all-or-nothing. Arizona follows pure comparative negligence (A.R.S. § 12-2505): an injured person’s recovery is reduced by their percentage of fault, but not eliminated even if they were mostly at fault.
Minors get more time. The limitations clock is generally paused for minors and people of unsound mind until the disability ends (A.R.S. § 12-502).
ASSESSMENT
The Awesome Attorneys View
Hirsch & Lyon’s genuine strength is depth of tenure: nearly 70 combined years of plaintiff-only injury practice between two founders who each ran independent solo practices for decades before merging, plus a real State Bar specialist certification for the firm’s lead partner. The care-home detail in one client account — a lawyer visiting an elderly client’s parents personally, years after the case resolved — is the kind of specific, checkable-in-spirit anecdote that reads as more credible than generic praise.
The honest trade-off: the firm’s headline statistics (99% success rate, $100 million recovered, 10,000+ cases) are aggregate, self-reported, and span two separate careers before their 2017 merger rather than a documented, itemized case history specific to the combined firm. Gregory Lyon’s individual peer-recognition record is thinner than Hirsch’s in what’s publicly documented. Clients evaluating the firm for a large or complex claim should ask which founder, specifically, would handle their case.
METHODOLOGY & INDEPENDENCE
This profile was researched and written independently by Awesome Attorneys’ editorial team in July 2026. Primary source: the firm’s own published website, hirschandlyonaccidentlaw.com. Secondary sources: Super Lawyers, Avvo, and Justia. Hirsch & Lyon Accident Law did not commission, pay for, or pre-approve this article. All claims are attributed to their sources; past results do not guarantee or predict future outcomes. This article is general information, not legal advice.
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