Ryan Kearney is a seasoned litigator and trial lawyer with extensive experience in environmental and regulatory compliance, climate change and adaptation, product liability, personal injury and commercial litigation, including mass tort and class action defense in the oil & gas, tobacco, consumer product, medical device, construction, private equity, real estate and transportation industries.
Ryan is a dedicated advocate for his clients, investing in creative strategies with a results-driven approach that has achieved nine complete defense verdicts for his trial teams in the last seven years, in addition to dozens of favorable resolutions and outright dismissals pre-trial. He prides himself on obtaining optimal client outcomes, working to defy odds in some of the most plaintiff-friendly jurisdictions across the country. Ryan's recent work includes defending clients in environmental and regulatory citizen suits, dozens of product liability and wrongful death actions, medical device cases related to surgical mesh products, commercial litigation in the private equity and real estate industries, and construction, transportation and other products litigation cases involving catastrophic injuries suffered in workplace and automotive settings.
Ryan has considerable experience in all stages of litigation, having taken or defended hundreds of depositions and managed countless cases through difficult discovery tracks, motion practice, mediation, trial and appeals. He is routinely called upon to help defend clients in some of their most high-stakes litigation involving sensitive client information and sympathetic plaintiffs in environmental and regulatory compliance, wrongful death, traumatic brain injury and disfigurement cases. Ryan regularly works with in-house counsel to develop strategy, discovery and case management plans from the early stages of litigation through trial. Ryan is particularly skilled in the development, presentation and defense of company witnesses in deposition and trial testimony. He is also a skilled writer and oral advocate, with a wide range of success in new and developing areas of the law.
