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Joseph Ryan

Joe Ryan is a Wisconsin trial lawyer whose practice focuses on personal injury, insurance defense, and civil litigation. Since being admitted to practice in 2012, Joe has handled civil cases throughout Wisconsin involving automobile accidents, premises liability, serious injuries, disputed medical causation, and other complex claims.

Joe began practicing full-time insurance defense in 2014. He has tried approximately 30 Wisconsin jury trials involving medical causation and/or liability, defended several cases in which plaintiffs sought more than $1 million in damages, deposed hundreds of plaintiffs, and personally deposed nearly 100 treating orthopedic and neurological surgeons. His experience includes spinal fusion cases, traumatic brain injuries, and significant knee, hip, shoulder, foot, ankle, wrist, and other orthopedic injuries.

Cross-examination—particularly of medical and other expert witnesses—is a central part of Joe’s trial practice. He focuses on finding inconsistencies, testing the foundation of expert opinions, and making complicated medical issues understandable to a jury.

Joe practiced for 12 years with his father, Jim Ryan, before Jim retired. Jim was known as a tough litigator with a deep understanding of both the law and the medicine, and that same emphasis on preparation, evidence, and trial work continues at Ryan Law Firm.

Joe earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and his law degree from Marquette University Law School.