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Rick Ryan
Managing and founding shareholder Rick Ryan has a strong history that spans more than 40 years of litigation and trial success. He is an Advocate of the American Board of Trial Advocates and is AV rated by Martindale–Hubbell. Mr. Ryan is a graduate of Southwestern University School of Law (J.D. 1982) and California State University, Fullerton (B.A. 1978). He was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1982. Mr. Ryan also gained substantial claims experience in the insurance industry prior to entering the field of law.
Marshall Shepardson
Marshall Shepardson is Senior Motion and Appellate Counsel. Marshall is a graduate of New York University of Law (J.D., 2004) He completed his undergraduate from University of California at Berkeley (B.A.A., 2001). He was admitted to the State Bar of California in 2009.
Hao Wu
Hao Wu is an associate. Hao is a graduate of California Western School of Law (J.D., 2018) and the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution of Pepperdine School of Law (L.L.M. with the concentration in International Commercial Arbitration, 2015). She completed her undergraduate from East China University of Political Science and Law (L.L.B., 2010). She was admitted to the State Bar of California in 2019.
Miya Deng
Miya Deng is an associate. Miya graduated from University of Southern California (LL.M., 2020) and she obtained her Bachelor of Law degree (J.D. Equivalent) from South China Normal University (2015). Miya passed the Bar of China in 2018 and was admitted to the State Bar of California in 2022.
Christiana Kim
Christiana Kim is an associate. She graduated from Pepperdine School of Law (J.D., 2019). She obtained a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Rhetoric at University of California, Berkeley (B.A., 2015).
She was admitted to the State Bar of California in 2023.