Ryan was one of the first members to join Work-Collective in January of 2020. As owner of Aspect Law, he provides legal services to the creative community.
For over twenty years, Ryan has helped artists, entertainment companies and other businesses navigate their legal questions and challenges. After growing up in a family that included a writer/editor, an artist, a filmmaker/photographer and multiple musicians, he studied theater and filmmaking (including a short stint as a professional film editor) in college, before attending UCLA School of Law, where he was co-Editor-in-Chief of UCLA’s Entertainment Law Review.
After graduating in 2002 and interning at Warner Bros. Pictures, he spent the next fifteen years as an associate and later partner at the Los Angeles law firm Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell. There he worked on numerous matters involving intellectual property in general and music, film and sports law in particular.
In 2019, Ryan and his family relocated to Oregon, where he now works with individual artists and creative businesses. He serves on the Board of the Oregon Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, and in his free time is a father and husband, follows his beloved Dodgers, and is a private pilot.
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