Jeff Ryan Attorney at law – The Balance to Be a Successful Attorney

There is an odd separation between the qualities that make one a great professional and qualities that make one a great person. Often, characteristics such as tenacity, cold-hearted logic, and a single-minded devotion are valued in the workroom, but resented in one’s social life. It is often useful to separate one’s personality or mentality into their professional and personal selves, thus allowing them to be the person they need to be at the office, but still returning home at the end of the day as a decent human being. However, many careers, especially those outside of the typical corporate structure that most of us are used to, require a different set of characteristics in order to be effective. Nurses, teachers, and social workers for instance need to have the highest level of interpersonal skills and compassion in their day-to-day responsibilities. There is another profession that combines both the tenacity and ambition of the corporate world with the compassion and caring of more socially oriented occupations.

For Jeffrey Ryan, solicitor, connecting with people is the heart of being a lawyer. As an attorney, one must simultaneously have the analytical mind they need to understand complex legal proceedings and implications, while also connected with tier clients on a more personal level. An attorney’s effectiveness in the courtroom is all about striking a balance between being practical and being compassionate, being honest and inspiring hope. For Jeffrey Ryan, this understanding is not only something that he has carried with him throughout his career, making him one of the most respected civil litigators in his region. It is also the reason that brought him to study law in the first place.

Growing up, Jeffrey Ryan was always concerned about the lives of those who needed protection. Even with his fascination for sports, Jeffrey Ryan was constantly rooting for the underdog, celebrating the moments when a categorically weaker team somehow found it within themselves to pull together the strength and cooperation they needed to win. As a civil litigator, this fascination with “defending the little guy” as he puts it, has helped him to defend clients in some of the most high profile cases in the country.

In once case, Jeffrey Ryan, solicitor (on Vimeo), relied on this desire to help the weak in his work defending a whistleblower in a high profile civil litigation case. He worked for more than five years with a team of attorneys, gathering evidence and putting together an argument to defend his client against their large Silicon Valley employer. Due to his compassion, as well as his tenacity, Jeffrey Ryan and his team succeeded in reaching a settlement in favor of his client for $75.5 million, one of the largest settlements in the history of the False Claims Act.