Jake Ryan is nationally recognized trial lawyer and a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers. Before joining Latham two decades ago, Jake served as a Navy pilot deployed to the Arabian Gulf and Somalia, a federal prosecutor in Chicago, and a law clerk to a federal trial court judge.
Jake is a proven leader and has served in several management roles at Latham. He currently leads the litigation practice in Latham’s Southern California offices as the firm’s Regional Department Chair. He formerly served as the Global Co-Chair of Latham’s Complex Commercial Litigation Practice. He was also the Local Department Chair for San Diego’s Litigation and Trial Department.
Jake tries cases in courts across the United States. He has tried thirty jury trials to verdict. In the vast majority of his trials, Jake was lead trial counsel. Jake is ranked in Band 1 by Chambers USA.
Jake has prevailed in jury trials or on pretrial motions in numerous subject matter areas, including the following:
Jake leads litigation teams on many high-profile matters and is frequently mentioned in the press. Jake was recently the American Lawyer Litigator of the Week twice, once for a jury trial win and once for persuading the Department of Justice to dismiss a federal indictment only weeks before a multi-defendant criminal trial.
Regional Chair of the Litigation & Trial Department in Southern California joins invite-only, prestigious trial organization as a fellow.
Latham is recognized for its wins on behalf of clients Camping World and Impact Biomedicines
Latham recognized for representing a defendant in an alleged Medicare-related kickback scheme involving a clinical research program testing for opioid addiction risk which concluded with prosecution dropping all charges.