Robert "Booter" Ryan focuses his practice in the area of litigation, and particularly in transportation, police and correctional officer liability, personal injury defense, toxic torts and traumatic and neurotoxic brain injury.  Mr. Ryan has additionally developed expertise in handling claims brought pursuant to the Longshoreman and Harbor Workers Compensation Act.  Mr. Ryan operates by the philosophy that in order to defend a client well, he must get to know the client well.  In that vein, Mr. Ryan devotes substantial time to learning the ins and outs of a client’s business, operations and collateral concerns and believes firmly that the time spent doing so pays exponential dividends in defending cases.  Mr. Ryan has tried cases to verdict in state and federal courts throughout West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio.