Ryan T.Nelson

Associate

Pittsburgh + 1.412.394.7952

Ryan Nelson represents clients in complex litigation, including trade secrets matters, nationwide tort litigation, and class actions. He has experience in federal and state courts at all stages of litigation from discovery through post-trial advocacy.

Ryan has represented global companies in the metals, coatings, and food and beverage industries in high-stakes litigation across the country. He has assisted clients in navigating expedited trade secrets and preliminary injunction matters as well as nationwide products liability and public nuisance litigations. Ryan has also represented an international metals company and its executives in a securities class action and insider trading matter. Ryan has experience formulating legal strategy, developing key facts, drafting dispositive and other motions, working with experts, and handling appeals.

Ryan is also active in the Firm's pro bono Border Project, representing a client with an asylum claim. Previously, Ryan served as an adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law co-teaching a constitutional law class focusing on the First Amendment religion clauses.

Experience

  • Sherwin-Williams wins precedential, en banc decision dismissing public nuisance claims involving 300,000 private propertiesJones Day client The Sherwin-Williams Company won dismissal of claims filed by two Pennsylvania counties alleging that former manufacturers of lead paint and pigments should be ordered to abate lead paint in all the pre-1978 homes within their jurisdictions.
  • Sherwin-Williams obtains favorable decision from Seventh Circuit in personal injury casesA Jones Day cross-office, cross-practice team obtained a precedential decision from the Seventh Circuit that directed judgment as a matter of law for The Sherwin-Williams Company following a consolidated trial of three personal injury plaintiffs claiming injury from their exposure to white lead carbonate pigments (WLC).