Ryan Nelson represents clients in complex litigation, including nationwide tort litigation and class actions. He has experience in federal and state courts at all stages of litigation from discovery through post-trial advocacy.
Ryan has had a major role in defending the Sherwin-Williams Company in nationwide products liability and public nuisance litigation. He has experience formulating and drafting dispositive and other motions throughout a litigation's life cycle, in addition to developing the factual record with depositions of fact witnesses and preparation of experts. Ryan has also assisted in representing an international metals company and its executives in a securities class action and insider trading matter, managing the production of ESI (electronically stored information) and preparing individuals for depositions.
Ryan is also active in the Firm's pro bono Border Project, representing a client with an asylum claim. Previously, Ryan served as an adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law co-teaching a constitutional law class focusing on the First Amendment religion rights.
Experience
- Stanford University (J.D. 2015; Associate Managing Editor, Stanford Law Review); Colgate University (B.A. in Philosophy with honors and B.A. in Political Science summa cum laude 2012)
- Pennsylvania and New York
- Law Clerk to Judge Thomas M. Hardiman, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit (2015-2016)