Sullivan & Worcester LLP

Litigation

Ryan’s practice includes numerous types of litigation, including complex, commercial, land use, business and interpersonal torts, sports, and bankruptcy. He has represented a variety of commercial and individual clients in both State and Federal Courts, as well as in Bankruptcy proceedings, AAA Arbitration, Mediation, proceedings before the Massachusetts Appellate Tax Board and administrative proceedings before the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and the Massachusetts Department of Unemployment Assistance.

In addition, Ryan provides dedicated pro bono legal services to and volunteers in the Boston community. Ryan co-chairs Sullivan’s pro bono partnerships with the Victim Rights Law Center (VRLC) and with the Volunteer Lawyers Project (VLP), coordinating Sullivan’s Associates in taking on pro bono cases with each group. As part of that work, Ryan has overseen dozens of successful cases in which Sullivan assisted pro bono clients form VRLC in obtaining restraining orders from various Massachusetts Courts, and pro bono clients from VLP in receiving unemployment benefits in the face of resistant former employers. He also regularly takes on such cases himself, directly representing clients in both instances, including a case in which he successfully argued a motion in Massachusetts Superior Court to protect a sexual assault victim from being required to provide her medical and mental health records to the defendant in the criminal case against him. Ryan also volunteers for the Boston NextGen Group, which is associated with the Tina’s Wish organization. Tina’s Wish is a charity founded in 2008 in memory of the Honorable Tina Brozman, former chief justice of the SDNY Bankruptcy Court who died two years after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer.

While attending Boston College Law School, Ryan was a member of the Journal of Law & Social Justice, won a Boston College Mock Trial Competition and participated in the school’s civil litigation clinic and its pro bono service trip to New Orleans. He also interned for Judge Raymond Brassard in the Massachusetts Superior Court and Judge Denise Casper in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

Bar & Court Admissions

Massachusetts U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

American Bar Association Boston Bar Association Member, Boston Bar Association Business & Commercial Litigation Steering Committee Member, Boston Bar Association Senior Associates Executive Steering Committee

Boston College Law School (J.D., magna cum laude) Muhlenberg College (B.A., magna cum laude)