Ryan F. Monahan

Associate

  • Ryan F. Monahan
  • Phone: +1 215 979 1182

    Import to Address Book

  • Duane Morris LLP
    30 South 17th Street
    Philadelphia, PA 19103-4196
    USA

Ryan F. Monahan practices in the area of litigation.

Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Monahan served as judicial clerk to the Hon. Marjorie Rendell of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third District.

Mr. Monahan is a 2018 cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, where he was articles editor of the Journal of Constitutional Law, and a summa cum laude graduate of Lafayette College.

Admissions

  • Pennsylvania
  • New York
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Education

  • University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, J.D., cum laude, 2018
    - Articles Editor, Journal of Constitutional Law
  • Lafayette College, B.A., summa cum laude, 2015

Experience

  • Duane Morris LLP
    - Associate 2022-present
  • Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
    - Associate, 2019-2022
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    - Judicial Clerk to the Hon. Marjorie Rendell, 2018-2019

Selected Publications

  • Co-author, "Collision Mitigation Systems – With Innovation, Comes Litigation." International Association of Defense Counsel Product Liability Digest, December 14, 2023
  • Co-author, "Pennsylvania Supreme Court to Consider Constitutionality of Excessive Punitive Damages," Duane Morris Alert, May 17, 2022

Representative Matters

  • Represented Prospect Crozer, a national hospital network, in reversing on appeal a preliminary injunction that had prevented one of its hospitals in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, from transitioning to a 100-bed behavioral health facility.

  • Represented renowned mooncake manufacturer Mei-Xin (Hong Kong) Limited, a subsidiary of Maxim’s Caterers Limited, in obtaining an appellate victory from the Third Circuit, reversing the grant of preliminary injunction against Maxim’s and Mei-Xin after Mei-Xin sought to terminate its distribution agreement with Golden Fortune Import & Export Corporation.

  • Represents a manufacturer and producer of polypropylene and polyethylene compounds in a case involving alleged toxic exposures to talc in the manufacturing process.