The attorneys listed below are a few of the highly respected litigators with whom Jeff Ryan regularly collaborates on his cases. By contracting with other attorneys with unique skill sets on individual cases, Mr. Ryan is able to keep the costs to his clients low and maximize the success on each case.

Ms. Ossi practices employment and business litigation and represents employees in employment discrimination, retaliation, and harassment matters; and plaintiffs and defendants in multi-million dollar complex business litigation matters.

Ms. Ossi has extensive law and motion practice experience, as well as taking and defending witness and expert depositions, participating in both binding and non-binding arbitrations, representing clients at mediations, negotiating settlement agreements, and all phases of trial preparation and post-trial work.

Ms. Ossi graduated from Santa Clara University, cum laude, with a degree in Finance. She received her Juris Doctorate from Santa Clara University School of Law, with a certificate in Public Interest Law.

• Second-chaired a wrongful termination jury trial and Superior Court trial experience.
• Researched, wrote, and argued pre-trial motions with almost 100% success rate.
• Prepared two post-trial motions for attorney’s fees, resulting in attorney’s fees awards of nearly $360,000.
• Handled cases involving employment-related matters, business and partnership disputes, biotechnology, unfair business practices, breach of contract, misappropriation of trade secrets, fraud, real estate, and insurance matters.
• Negotiated and finalized settlement agreements for top-level employees and executives throughout California.
• Obtained defense verdict in non-binding arbitration without appeal from plaintiff’s counsel.

Gregory Rader is the team’s law clerk and scribe. He researches and drafts writs, motions and appeals in all state and federal courts, with a focus on issues arising under the United States Constitution.

Commissioned an Army officer at age 19, Mr. Rader graduated from the Foreign Service/Defense Language Institute, East Coast, before service in Vietnam, where he commanded an artillery battery, served as the fire support coordinator for an infantry battalion, and where he was awarded two Bronze Stars and the Air Medal. He graduated cum laude from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he was twice selected to serve on the C. Herman Pritchett Constitutional Law moot court.

Mr. Rader has drafted several U.S. Supreme Court petitions for certiorari to state and federal appellate courts; countless petitions for review to the California Supreme Court, and over 100 briefs on appeal to the First, Second and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeal, and to the California Courts of Appeal. The subject matter of these pleadings has ranged from issues arising under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, to immigration matters, employment discrimination, family law disputes and juvenile dependency and delinquency questions. He has also researched and drafted pleadings in the British Columbia Supreme Court for an Appointment of Review of Solicitor’s Bill.

Mr. Rader’s writs and motions practice includes petitions for mandamus, probation and habeas corpus to trial and reviewing courts, as well as pre-trial motions, e.g., in limine, suppression, exclusion, and the drafting of pin-point jury instructions.