NORMAN A. RYAN, the Managing Partner of Ryan Mercaldo & Worthington LLP was honored to be named by California’s Super Lawyers © magazine as one of the top attorneys in San Diego, California for 2011. Only five percent of the lawyers in the state are named by Super Lawyers. You can read more about Mr. Ryan here.
RMW serves clients throughout California, Nevada and Arizona from offices in San Diego and Las Vegas. Drawing from more than 30 years of legal experience, Mr. Ryan maintains a robust civil litigation practice with a primary emphasis on defense and disputes involving wrongful death, catastrophinc loss, transportation, personal injury, product defect, business and construction law.
Mr. Ryan has received an AV Preeminent* rating for 15 consecutive years; it is the highest rating an attorney or law firm can receive through the peer review ratings process facilitated by Martindale-Hubbell.
He is an active member of several professional organizations as well, including the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), the Transportation Insurance Defense Association (TIDA), California Trucking Association (CTA) and the Defense Research Institute (DRI). Mr. Ryan also served for five years with the U.S. Navy’s Judge Advocate General’s Corp (JAGC) and for 22 years in the U.S. Naval Reserves. He retired in 2007 as a Captain in the USNR.
The selections for this esteemed list are made by the research team at Super Lawyers, which is a service of the Thomson Reuters, Legal division. Each year, the research team at Super Lawyers undertakes a rigorous multi-phase selection process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, independent evaluation of candidates by the attorney-led research staff, a peer review of candidates by practice area, and a good standing and disciplinary check.
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CONGRATULATIONS, NORMAN!
*AV Preeminent and BV Distinguished are certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies. Martindale-Hubbell is the facilitator of a peer review rating process. Ratings reflect the anonymous opinions of members of the bar and the judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell peer review ratings fall into two categories: legal ability and general ethical standards.