Mr. Ryan is engaged in the practice of labor and employment law and has a special expertise in defending employment-related class action lawsuits, including unfair business practices claims involving wage and hour issues and employment discrimination. He also has a wide range of experience in advising employers and litigating matters regarding employment discrimination, sexual harassment, trade secrets and employee raiding, reductions-in-force, wrongful termination, employee privacy rights, and other employment law matters. He regularly tries cases, jury and non-jury, in both the state and federal courts.

Mr. Ryan also has extensive experience in the representation of employers in matters involving union organizing, collective bargaining, labor arbitration, and labor relations. He has guided employers in difficult employment situations involving strikes, boycotts, lockouts, negative corporate campaigns, and concession bargaining. His practice includes the representation of employers before the NLRB.

Mr. Ryan has lectured on various labor law subjects to human resource professionals and attorneys. He is a contributing author of The Developing Labor Law, a treatise on the National Labor Relations Act published by the American Bar Association.

Mr. Ryan is a fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers.

• Represented supermarket company in the 141-day strike in the Southern California grocery industry. The strike was the largest and the longest labor dispute in the United States in the last 10 years. The representation included litigation in the United States District Court, the California Superior Court, before the National Labor Relations Board, and before an impartial arbitrator. The representation also included providing extensive advice.
• Represented large retail employer in four separate class actions alleging employees were misclassified as exempt employees and were owed overtime pay. All four cases were settled on terms very favorable to the company.
• Represented government contractor in sexual harassment/discrimination lawsuit involving conduct occurring on US Air Force base. The jury in the case refused to award any damages to the plaintiff.
• Represented employer in jury trial involving claim that company had discriminated against and defamed employee suffering from AIDS. The jury ruled in favor of the employer on all claims.