James Lyon, who towered in the legal profession because of his mentoring of young attorneys, his pro bono work, and his distinction as one of the few Connecticut attorneys who dealt exclusively with the law related to the taxation of charitable institutions, died Tuesday morning at 89 years old.

“Jim harkens back to a time when law was truly a profession, and was less of a business. That’s the world he came from,” said former colleague Alfred Smith Jr., a partner at Murtha Cullina. “It was something he said we always needed to remember: that we are more than a business. Maybe Jim’s legacy is that he reminds us of that.”

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