Avalon Lawyers

Chris Simmons is a co-founding partner at Lyons & Simmon, LLP, where he specializes in representing plaintiffs in catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death matters. Renowned as a fierce trial lawyer with excellent client communication skills, Chris blends tenacious advocacy with creative strategies, treating each client's struggle as if it were his own and bringing cases to verdict across Texas and nationwide. His track record includes multiple multimillion-dollar verdicts and settlements in complex cases involving explosions, aviation disasters, product defects, trucking and industrial accidents. Lyons & Simmons is continuously recognized by attorney peers and industry publications as one of the...

Dillon Vaughn is an Associate Attorney at Slack Davis Sanger LLP in the firm’s Fort Worth office.

Martin Robson is a founding partner at Charhon Callahan Robson & Garza. He represents foreign and domestic companies engaged in complex commercial and patent litigation in federal and state courts nationwide.

I am very experienced in domestic litigation and do appeals in areas of civil law. I am a mediator and a member of the State Bar College. I volunteer at Fathers for Equal Rights and am a member of the American Bar Association and the State Bar of Texas. I am very dedicated to my clients and will always put their interests first. I bring new techniques and strategies to my cases.

After receiving a bachelor's degree in psychology from Indiana University in 1979, I moved to Dallas to attend law school. I obtained my law degree from Southern Methodist University in 1982. I was in private practice until I joined the Dallas County Public Defender’s Office in 1985. I was assigned to the newly formed juvenile division in 1988, becoming the supervising attorney in 1995, and remained there until 2008 when I returned to private practice. The focus of my practice remains juvenile law.