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Senior Associate Katherine Meleski Wins FIVE Cases By Motion in Mere Months
Lindsay v. Client et al. – Summary Judgment Victory: Ryan Firm Senior Associate Katherine Meleski successfully defended an Eligible...

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Mar 19, 20252 min read


The Ryan Firm’s Incredible 2024 in a Nutshell!
While 2023 was an unparalleled year of appellate victories, in 2024 The Ryan Firm earned countless victories at appellate courts, jury...

The Ryan Firm
Feb 26, 20257 min read


Attorney Michael Stoltzman’s Amazing Year!
Michael W. Stoltzman Jr. has been with The Ryan Firm for 14 years, and opened its Northern California and Nevada offices in 2014. Mike...

The Ryan Firm
Feb 26, 20256 min read


Ryan Firm Wins Battle Over $6,000,000 Hollywood House.
The Ryan Firm is pleased to announce that it secured a phenomenal result for one of its institutional investor clients. After years of...

The Ryan Firm
Feb 26, 20251 min read


Navigating the New World of Nonjudicial Foreclosures After AB 2424 Guidance for Trustees, Lenders, Investors, and Servicers*
On September 20, 2024, Governor Gavin Newsom approved Assembly Bill 2424—a bill that will significantly transform the nonjudicial...

The Ryan Firm
Feb 19, 20259 min read


A $50,000 Collection Letter to our Client Turns into a $500,000 Victory
An elderly relative of one of The Ryan Firm’s corporate clients was pursued for a long term contract that he never signed. Initially,...

The Ryan Firm
Apr 26, 20241 min read


Bad Faith Cancellation of Purchase Case - Win at Arbitration
Sellers of a Newport Coast estate and clients of The Ryan Firm (“Sellers”), accepted an offer to sell their family home, but the buyer...

The Ryan Firm
Apr 26, 20241 min read


7 Year Foreclosure Challenge Odyssey Ends with Emphatic Appellate Victory
The Ryan Firm substituted into litigation between a savvy borrower and his lender’s successor (“Successor”) after the court issued an...

The Ryan Firm
Apr 26, 20242 min read


Unanimous Jury Verdict in Federal Loan Servicing Trial!
The Ryan Firm’s first federal jury trial of 2024 was recently won by Attorney Mike Stoltzman via unanimous jury verdict. The case was...

The Ryan Firm
Apr 26, 20241 min read


Ryan Firm Reverses Appellate Court Decision and Saves Summary Nature of Post-Foreclosure Evictions
The Ryan Firm is proud to announce a recent victory obtained in the California Court of Appeal, Sixth District, in Taptelis v. Homeward...

The Ryan Firm
Apr 17, 20243 min read


Protecting the Enforceability of Secured Loans from a Wide Range of Attacks
The Ryan Firm is honored to announce a significant result for its client in the secured lending space. Mr. Mase, along with Steven...
The Ryan Firm
Oct 12, 20232 min read


We voided a subordination agreement to save GSE lien priority!
Andrew Mase, The Ryan Firm Litigation Manager, won a bench trial for major Government Sponsored Enterprise in a unique real property...

The Ryan Firm
Aug 21, 20231 min read


We win when we represent loan servicers!
Our client foreclosed on a long-defaulted loan during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the property being sold to a third party at the...

The Ryan Firm
Aug 21, 20231 min read


The Ryan Firm got a client out of a contract, and the other side paid our client's legal fees!
Our client immediately regretted signing a real estate sales agreement, we got him out of the contract, and the other side paid our...

The Ryan Firm
Aug 21, 20231 min read


Two high dollar evictions transfer to The Ryan Firm - the clients see immediate results!
The client purchased a high profile property at a foreclosure auction – but their eviction attorney could not get possession. Faced with...

The Ryan Firm
Aug 21, 20232 min read


The Ryan Firm Wins The Unwinnable Case, Again!
It is not all “banking and investor litigation” at The Ryan Firm. We represent ordinary people as well. In this particular instance, a...

The Ryan Firm
Jun 26, 20232 min read


When Your Lawyer’s Reputation Precedes It, Sometimes Litigation Isn’t Even Necessary!
As Sun Tsu once said, “To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.” Let The Ryan Firm demonstrate that skill for you! Two...

The Ryan Firm
Jun 14, 20231 min read


Fraudulent Tenants Post-Foreclosure? Let The Ryan Firm get you possession ASAP!
Holdover borrowers abuse the due process protections of our legal system to stay in property in contravention of the law, while at the...

The Ryan Firm
Apr 27, 20232 min read


Will the Health & Safety Receivership Impact Your Lien? Not if The Ryan Firm is on Your Team!
The super-priority nature of receivership liens can rob a lender of its entire security in a Health & Safety Code Violation Receivership....

The Ryan Firm
Apr 27, 20231 min read


Sued as a Private Mortgage Investor – Let The Ryan Firm Protect You!
One of The Ryan Firm’s most recent success stories involves representing nine individual investors against the private lender who...

The Ryan Firm
Mar 23, 20232 min read
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