Lecturers in Law
Ryan J. Walsh
Lecturer in LawBiography
Ryan Walsh focuses his nationwide practice on complex trial and appellate litigation and corporate counseling in a wide variety of areas, including labor and employment, energy, class actions, commercial disputes, constitutional law, corporate governance, and government regulation. Ryan has maintained a perfect win record in all of the cases to have resolved while he managed the litigation either for plaintiffs or defendants.
Ryan previously served as Wisconsin’s Chief Deputy Solicitor General, where he ran the State’s highest-stakes cases. Before that, he worked in Washington D.C. in an elite complex-litigation practice group of an Am Law 10 firm.
After graduating with high honors and Order of the Coif from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was Editor in Chief of the Law Review, Ryan was a law clerk on the U.S. Supreme Court for Justice Antonin Scalia and on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain.