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   Toledo, OH
       Anspach, Robert M.
       Meeks, Mark D.
       Ellenberger, Richard F.
       Riesen, Kent D.
       White, Garrick O.
       Carnes, James R.
       Neceski, Marjan
       Morton, James M. Jr.
       Rambo, Glenn L.
       Lyle, Dennis A.
       Janson, Scott T.
       Wagoner, Gregory H.
       Straub, Jessica W.
       Engwert, J. Randall
       Boyd, Nathan R.
       Jackson, Michael W.
       Nowak, Rebecca A.
       Giles, Jennifer A.
       Wanick, John R.
       Farris, Ray A.
       Lange, Fred J.
       Loyd, Donna Engwert

 
   Buffalo, NY
   Tiffin, OH

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Dennis A. Lyle
Partner

Phone: 419-246-5757
Email: dlyle@anspachlaw.com

Practice Areas
Products and Warranty Liability
Commercial, Employment and Insurance Defense
Personal Injury
Property Tax

Education
B.S.B.A. Bowling Green State University, 1980.
J.D. (cum laude) University of Toledo College of Law, 1984.
Administrative Law Moot Court.

Memberships
American, Ohio State, and Toledo Bar Associations; ABA Tort & Insurance Practice Section; ABA Business Law Section.

Experience
Dennis has been practicing law since 1984. His litigation practice focuses upon the prosecution and defense of commercial, products and warranty liability, trade secrets, employment and insurance coverage claims. He has obtained successful verdicts before federal, state and administrative tribunals including the Lucas, Sandusky and Hamilton County Courts of Common Pleas, the United States District Court of the Northern Division, Western District, the PUCO and the Board of Tax Appeals. His experience includes successful trials for automobile, clothing, recreational and industrial product manufacturers, as well as successful appeals to the Third, Sixth, and Eighth Appellate District Courts, the Ohio Supreme Court and the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. For over twenty years, Dennis has also specialized in the prosecution of property tax reduction cases for commercial and residential properties.

Dennis also had lead responsibility for the defense of class action litigation involving consumer transaction issues, as well as supervisory responsibility of nationwide counsel for mass tort litigation.

Dennis was selected for the Ohio State Bar Foundation 2004 Fellows Class. In 2003, Dennis received the Lori-Urogdy-Eiler award for coaching excellence awarded by the Ohio Center for Law Related Education. His high school mock trial teams have won a record five state titles. Prior to his involvement in mock trial, Dennis taught Business Organizations, Consumer Transactions, Landlord-tenant law and Civil Procedure classes at the University of Toledo Legal Assistant programs.

Dennis commenced his legal career serving as an appellate clerk at the Sixth District Court of Appeals for Judge, later Ohio Supreme Court Justice, Andrew Douglas. Prior to his legal career, he was employed as a public accountant with Peat Marwick.