Ryan Schmidt represents clients in a variety of complex commercial litigation in state and federal courts and in arbitration proceedings.
Ryan's practice is focused on litigation and alternative dispute resolution. His experience includes disputes related to breach of contract, antitrust, class actions, and the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and spans multiple stages of litigation, including fact development and investigation, e-discovery, offensive and defensive discovery, briefing and motions practice, trial, arbitration proceedings, and settlement negotiations.
Prior to joining Jones Day, Ryan served as an assistant attorney general in the Alaska Department of Law's civil appellate division, where he represented the state before the Alaska Supreme Court. He also clerked on the Alaska Supreme Court and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Before law school, Ryan received a Fulbright Scholarship and worked in Jinju and Daejeon, South Korea.
- Northwestern University (J.D. cum laude 2019; Managing Editor, Northwestern University Law Review); University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (B.A. summa cum laude 2012; Recipient of Bronze Tablet Award for high academic achievement)
- Illinois and U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- Assistant Attorney General, Alaska Department of Law, Opinions, Appeals, and Ethics Section (2021-2022)
- Law Clerk to: Judge Gene E.K. Pratter, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania (2020-2021) and Justice Peter J. Maassen, Alaska Supreme Court (2019-2020)