Experienced Alternative Dispute Resolution Attorney Serving The Bucks County Community
One of the principles upon which Bucks County Mediation and Arbitration Center is founded is providing specialized services, time and talents to the community. The firm founder, Barbara N. Lyons, is a strong proponent of giving back.
Over the years, here are just some ways Ms. Lyons has served and continues to serve the Bucks County community:
- After graduating from law school, Ms. Lyons moved to Doylestown, PA, and began her work in public service, beginning with the Big Brothers Big Sisters and helping it merge with Big Sisters.
- Ms. Lyons worked with juvenile offenders to keep them out of the justice system and help them to become responsible and caring young adults and has taught at the Juvenile Justice Center. She has served as a director and past president at CB Cares Educational Foundation, an organization that promotes positive values, attitudes and behavior in young children and adolescents by building coalitions with parents, schools and health care professionals.
- While on the Board of A Woman’s Place, an organization that provides shelter for women and children leaving an abusive situation who have to start again with limited financial resources, Ms. Lyons helped to create and fund the Full Circle Thrift Shop located in New Britain, PA. Profits from the shop are used for the women served by the organization.
- Ms. Lyons helped to create and fund the Teen Center located in Doylestown, PA.
- Having served on the Doylestown Borough Revitalization Board, which Ms. Lyons chaired for three years, she worked with the Main Street program. Doylestown Borough was used as a statewide model for the program, which later contributed to the designation of Doylestown as one of the towns in the country noted for its thriving business district and historic preservation.
- Ms. Lyons counsels families in crisis and organizes emergency relief for families dealing with children at risk, abuse or economic hardship.
- Understanding the issues facing homeowners in tough economic times, Ms. Lyons helped organize the creation of the Mortgage Foreclosure Diversion Program for the County of Bucks, providing homeowners the opportunity to meet with lenders to prevent home foreclosure and since 2009 has served as a judge pro tem for this program.
- In her capacity as mediator for the Mortgage Foreclosure Diversion Program (MFDP) in Bucks County, Ms. Lyons is training other lawyers to serve as mediators through a hands-on CLE.
- Ms. Lyons served as a volunteer in Doylestown Township for 15 years before she became a supervisor in 2002. While serving as a Supervisor, Ms. Lyons continues to chair the annual Golf Outing which benefits the Township parks; she served on the Doylestown Township and Borough Open Space and Parks and Recreation Comprehensive Planning Committee resulting in a regional planning approach for both municipalities; she served on the Bucks County Open Space Task Force that resulted in a County wide referendum in 2007 proving $87 million in funds for the preservation of Open Space; she has established working relationships with the local governments of the Boroughs of Doylestown and New Britain, and Warwick, Plumstead, New Britain, Buckingham and Warrington Townships, the County of Bucks and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. She takes her role on the Board of Supervisors seriously and has served as Chairman of the Board for 15 years.
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Ms. Lyons is a dedicated and experienced neutral attorney committed to providing exceptional legal services to attorneys and their clients. Her extensive experience across a wide range of legal areas ensures that each matter receives personalized and effective solutions.