Ryan Smith is a member of the firm’s white-collar, internal investigations and corporate compliance litigation practice group. He focuses on counseling clients in sophisticated criminal and civil matters, including those involving RICO, the False Claims Act, the Anti-Kickback Statute and a range of commercial disputes. Ryan is engaged in every aspect of his clients' defense, including drafting motions, briefs and memoranda in cases at both the federal and state level. He also has experience with civil and criminal appeals and postconviction proceedings.
Prior to joining Stradley Ronon, Ryan was a litigation associate at an international law firm in Philadelphia. Before then, he was an associate and legal writer at a boutique criminal defense firm based in southeastern Pennsylvania. Ryan received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Temple University Beasley School of Law, where he was a Beasley Scholar. He served as a staff editor and research editor for the Temple Law Review and received multiple graduation awards for his research and writing. Throughout law school, Ryan had several legal internships, including working with the Philadelphia County District Attorney’s Office, the Defender Association of Philadelphia, the Federal Community Defenders for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the Montgomery County Public Defender’s Office. In his final law school semester, Ryan externed as a clerk for the Honorable Sierra Thomas Street in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.
Ryan also was a founding member of Law Students for Equitable Responses to COVID-19, where he authored a King’s Bench petition filed in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and led a statewide initiative for an equitable alternative to bar exams during the pandemic. Ryan received his B.A., magna cum laude, in political science with a dual major in philosophy and minors in history and communication from Villanova University.