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Lawyers on the Fast Track 2009
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September 28, 2009
The Legal Intelligencer
Anthony L. Gallia
Partner, Duane Morris
Philadelphia
Practice Profile: Gallia handles complex commercial and intellectual property litigation, regularly counseling clients and serving as trial counsel for plaintiffs and defendants in real estate transactions, contracts, restrictive covenants, manufacturer/distributor disputes and securities litigation.
He also acts as trial counsel in trademark, copyright and trade secret litigation, as well as matters involving serious personal injuries and wrongful death.
Leadership Activity: Gallia is involved with the firm's recruitment and retention committee and serves as a mentor to the firm's summer associates.
Outside the firm, in 2004, he coached a team of four law students from Temple University School of Law to a national championship in the National Civil Rights Invitational Trial Competition. That same year, he coached the team to a first place finish in the Buffalo-Niagara Invitational Mock Trial Tournament.
Says Matthew Taylor, chairman of the firm's trial practice group, "Anthony possesses extraordinary analytical capabilities, a dedication to the legal profession evidenced by his hard work, and has personal attributes that foretell his future as a leader within the firm and the community. Anthony regularly works with and supervises younger associates, both in Philadelphia and in the firm's other offices, on cases he handles and makes a point of fostering responsibility and professional development among the younger associates assisting on those matters."
Pro Bono & Civic Work: Among Gallia's various accomplishments is the successful trial and acquittal of the defendant of one count of criminal assault and two counts of criminal contempt in The State of New Jersey v. Terry Gamble.
Presently, he is supervising a project for the Anti-Defamation League involving an analysis of various communities considering proposals to operate digital surveillance cameras, purchased with a grant from the Department of Homeland Security, that would be installed on public streets to aid law enforcement. The project involves an analysis of how such a proposal might fare in Pennsylvania including legal arguments for and against operating such a surveillance system.
Gallia has been a board member of the Weekday School of Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church since 2008, providing approval, advice and hands-on support to the director of the school.
Experience: Current employer: 2002-present.
Education: University of Akron School of Law, J.D., 2000; University of Akron, M.P.A., 2000; University of Scranton, B.S., 1993.
Matthew M. Ryan
Associate, Duane Morris
Philadelphia
Practice Profile: Ryan represents corporate entities and individual clients in commercial litigation matters, with an emphasis on contracts, commercial fraud and business tort cases. He has also represented corporate entities, officers and directors and individuals in class action securities fraud and products liability cases.
Leadership Activity: In the firm, Ryan is a member of the recruitment and retention committee and previously served as a summer associate mentor.
Outside the firm, Ryan is a member of the appellate courts and the federal courts committees of the Philadelphia Bar Association. He has been appointed to the Philadelphia Bar Association's investigative division of the commission on judicial selection and retention. Ryan serves on the editorial board of YL, The Young Lawyer, a monthly supplement to The Legal Intelligencer, and also serves as a volunteer judge for the John S. Bradway High School Mock Trial Competition.Pro Bono & Civic Work: Ryan's pro bono work has included counseling an independent nonprofit research and educational institute on possible registration and reporting obligations under the Pennsylvania Lobbying Disclosure Law; representing a client in action where the former domestic partner has challenged the distribution of proceeds from the sale of their home; and representing a federal prisoner in a civil rights action involving allegations of an inadequate prison law library (through the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Prisoner Civil Rights Panel).
Additionally, he is active in political groups, serving as the treasurer of the Swarthmore Republican Party since 2006 (for which he also acts as a poll-watcher and fundraiser host) and as the recording secretary of the Delaware County Young Republicans since 2007.Experience: Current employer: Sept. 2004-present.
Education: University of Pennsylvania Law School, J.D., 2003; Villanova University, B.A. and B.A.H., 2000.
This article originally appeared in The Legal Intelligencer and is republished here with permission from law.com.
