Ryan is a skilled trial lawyer with extensive experience representing catastrophically injured individuals in courtrooms across Pennsylvania. Over the course of his career, Ryan has helped bring home record-breaking, multimillion-dollar verdicts and settlements for his clients in a wide range of personal injury cases, including medical malpractice, wrongful death and birth injuries.
Ryan is a zealous advocate who brings passion, creativity and empathy to each case. With a deep commitment to fighting for justice for injured individuals, Ryan has helped achieve a slew of life-changing recoveries for clients totaling over $318 million to date. Noteworthy victories that Ryan has assisted in securing include:
Ryan first developed a passion for representing individuals and families who suffered an injury as a result of wrongdoing by others while he was in law school and working at a prominent personal injury firm in Scranton, Pennsylvania. After graduating law school with the highest honors, Ryan joined Dechert LLP, one of the most prestigious international law firms, where he handled a wide range of cases including product liability, government investigations and securities litigation. Ryan left Dechert LLP to focus exclusively on representing critically injured clients. Ryan has devoted more than a decade fighting to give a voice to children, families and individuals rendered powerless by misconduct of large institutions and corporations. He co-founded VSCP LAW to continue that fight.
Before becoming a lawyer, Ryan had a distinguished academic career that included top honors at two of Pennsylvania’s leading public universities. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law with a Civil Litigation Certificate that included trial and appellate moot court awards. At Pitt Law, Ryan served on the Editorial Board of the Pittsburgh Law Review as the Senior Articles Editor. Ryan earned his undergraduate degree from the Pennsylvania State University, Schreyer Honors College, graduating summa cum laude. He attended Penn State on an academic excellence scholarship and was selected into the Phi Beta Kappa Academic Honors Society.
Ryan is an active member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, the Philadelphia Bar Association, the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association, the American Association for Justice, and the Lackawanna Bar Association. He is also a founding member of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Landlord-Tenant Appellate Mediation Committee. Since 2012, Ryan has consistently been recognized by his peers and selected to Pennsylvania Super Lawyer as a Rising Star.
Ryan has deep connections to all four corners of Pennsylvania. He grew up in Scranton, has extensive family roots in Erie, spent his academic years in State College and Pittsburgh and now calls Philadelphia home. When he is not busy advocating for his clients, he enjoys coaching youth sports, playing golf and spending time with his wife and two young children.
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In cases that Ryan has served as Co-Counsel
