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Ryan works on the firm’s Privacy + Cyber team. He previously served as an assistant attorney general in the Virginia Attorney General’s Office, handling a high-volume appellate docket, and as a staff attorney at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, where his caseload included complex matters involving issues of first impression. His appellate experience gives him an analytical framework suitable for the evolving statutory and regulatory questions at the center of privacy and cybersecurity issues.

On April 8, Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger signed HB 444, the Uniform Consumer Debt Default Judgments Act, into law. The Act establishes pleading and notice requirements in certain consumer debt collection actions that must be met for a creditor to obtain a default judgment against a consumer. This Act is based on a model drafted by the Uniform Law Commission, similar versions of which have been enacted in Washington and introduced in Pennsylvania. HB 444 will take effect on July 1, 2027.