James R. Lance

James R. Lance is an experienced trial attorney at Noonan Lance Boyer & Banach, LLP, located in San Diego, California, who has represented both plaintiffs and defendants for over 37 years. He regularly represents defendants in bet-the-company litigation, and has obtained several 7 and 8 figure verdicts, judgments and settlements for personal injury and commercial plaintiffs.Mr. Lance obtained a judgment of $12,933,000 in 2024 for an individual plaintiff asserting an employment claim. He also has secured excellent results in several other cases. Two examples: (1) a judgment of  more than $5 million for a group of Imperial County investors asserting claims of financial elder abuse, breach of fiduciary duty and fraud; and (2) a class-action settlement valued at over $180 million for a transmission-replacement program against a major auto manufacturer.Mr. Lance represents clients in many different types of disputes, and has tried cases involving investor fraud, anti-trust, unfair business practices, legal malpractice, serious personal injury, maritime injury & other maritime disputes, product liability, medical malpractice, wrongful death, and a class action investor fraud case on behalf of the San Diego County employees regarding their retirement benefits.Mr. Lance also is a mediator on the Civil Mediation Panel of the San Diego Superior Court. SDSC litigants regularly hire him to mediate cases pending in that state court.James Lance has been selected by his peers as a “Top 50” attorney in San Diego from 2019-24 and has been a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates since 2013. He served on the ABOTA membership committee for several years and, in 2024, he became the president of San Diego ABOTA. He is a member of the board of directors for CAL-ABOTA, which serves eight California ABOTA chapters and the Hawaii chapter. He also is a board member of the William B. Enright Chapter of the American Inns of Court.Mr. Lance also is very active in the community. He coached youth football and baseball for more than 15 years, and presently spearheads a program at an underserved high school in Southeast San Diego which holds monthly meetings on campus to provide students with information/mentoring for career opportunities in the legal field, potential internships and oral argument competitions.