Balch & Bingham LLP

Litigation

Partner

Ryan Hodinka focuses on commercial, products liability, and employment litigation and has extensive ‘experience representing some of the country's best-known companies in high-stakes litigation. Notable matters include successfully defending a poultry company during a three-and-a-half week civil RICO jury trial and defending a nuclear project owner facing over one billion dollars in claims by an Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contractor. Ryan handles class actions and commercial cases involving claims for fraud, breach of contract, and breach of fiduciary duty, and regularly represents clients in cases involving trade secrets and non-competition and non-solicitation agreements. Ryan also has significant experience reducing e-discovery costs on matters with voluminous electronically-stored information.

Before joining Balch, Ryan clerked in the United States District Court the Middle District of Alabama. While at Furman University, Ryan was a four-year letterman on the school's Division I baseball team, and after graduation, he played two seasons of minor league baseball in the St. Louis Cardinals' organization.

Alabama Defense Lawyers Association

DRI - Lawyers Representing Business

Birmingham Bar Association

The University of Alabama School of Law, J.D., 2011, magna cum laude; Alabama Law Review, Articles Editor and Treasurer; Order of the Coif; Jessup Internal Law Moot Court Team; Campbell Moot Court Board

Furman University, B.A., 2006, Political Science