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FN:Matthew M. Ryan
TEL;WORK:+1 215 979 1110
TEL;TYPE=WORK,FAX:+1 215 689 4946
EMAIL;WORK;PREF:MMRyan@duanemorris.com
N:Ryan, Matthew M.
TITLE:Associate
ORG:Duane Morris LLP
ADR;INTL;WORK;PARCEL;POSTAL:;;Duane Morris LLP | 30 South 17th Street | Philadelphia, PA  19103-4196 | USA | 
URL;WORK:http://www.duanemorris.com
NOTE;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE: Matthew M. Ryan advocates for both plaintiffs and defendants, corporate entities and individual clients alike, in commercial litigation with emphasis on contracts, commercial fraud, and business tort cases, with first- and second-chair experience in pretrial hearings, post-trial hearings, and non-jury trials. Mr. Ryan has also represented corporate entities and individual clients in class action securities fraud lawsuits, construction disputes, and products liability cases. He is a member of the firm’s Trial Department, its Commercial Litigation and Securities Litigation groups, and the Appellate Practice group.  

Mr. Ryan is actively involved in handling pro bono matters, and he has been recognized by the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas for his exemplary pro bono work. He has represented indigent tenants in disputes with their landlords in connection with the Community Legal Services of Philadelphia's Landlord-Tenant Municipal Court Program; he has also served as a Settlement Master for the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Landlord-Tenant Appellate Mediation Program. He has represented state and federal prisoners in federal civil rights actions through the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Prisoner Civil Rights Panel.

Mr. Ryan has been involved in politics, government, and public service.  He has been involved in numerous political campaigns on the federal, state, and local levels.  He has also provided legal advice on a pro bono basis to the Committee of Seventy, a Philadelphia-based good-government watchdog organization. Mr. Ryan has been appointed to the Philadelphia Bar Association's Investigative Division of the Commission on Judicial Selection and Retention, in connection with which he has researched and made recommendations on candidates for judicial office in Philadelphia. In 2010, he was appointed to serve on the Development Programs Committee of the Boards of Directors of Catholic Social Services of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.  He serves on the Delaware County Drug and Alcohol Executive Commission.  He volunteers for the Philadelphia Reads "Power Partners" program, which pairs Philadelphia professionals with children from public school classrooms for weekly reading sessions.  Mr. Ryan serves on the Editorial Board of The Young Lawyer, a monthly supplement to The Legal Intelligencer. 

Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Ryan served as a law clerk to the Honorable Michael M. Baylson of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Mr. Ryan is a 2003 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was on the Moot Court Board and served as executive editor of production and associate editor of the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor and Employment Law, and he is a 2000 graduate of Villanova University.

In 2009, he was one of only 30 attorneys across Pennsylvania named a "Lawyer on the Fast Track" by the publisher of The Legal Intelligencer and Pennsylvania Law Weekly.

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