Ryan J. Cassidy
Partner
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- +1 215 241 7974 (Philadelphia)
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- +1 215 851 1420 (Philadelphia)
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- rcassidy@reedsmith.com
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Ryan is a partner in Reed Smith’s Philadelphia office and practices exclusively management-side labor and employment law in both the public and private sector. He has represented numerous clients in the context of grievance and interest arbitration hearings; labor injunctions, collective bargaining, state and federal administrative agency charges and employment-related litigation, and local agency hearings.
Ryan frequently lectures and has been published on a wide variety of labor and employment law topics, including the National Labor Relations Act, the Policemen and Firemen Collective Bargaining Act (Act 111), the Police Pension Fund Act (Act 600), the Public Employee Relations Act (Act 195), the Police Tenure Act, Civil Service under the Borough Code and First Class Township Code, the Local Agency Law, as well as other areas of law relating to personnel administration, human resources practices and municipal affairs.
Publications
- Co-author of The Model Hiring Manual for Pennsylvania Municipalities, published in 2003 by the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, Governor’s Center for Local Government Services
- Contributing editor for The Developing Labor Law, a national treatise on federal labor law
Experience
| 1998 | Reed Smith |
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| — | Served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Joseph T. Doyle, the immediate past President Judge of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania |
Legal Education
| 1996 | J.D.,with honors, Widener University School of Law Served as the Executive Managing Editor of the school’s Law Review His case note, "United States v. Dixon: The Jeopardizing of Judicial Contempt Power," was published in the fall of 1995 Devised and managed "The Annual Survey of Pennsylvania Administrative Law," an annual supplement to The Widener Journal of Public Law, which analyzes significant decisions rendered by the Supreme and Commonwealth Courts of Pennsylvania |
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Undergraduate Education
| 1993 | B.A., Rutgers University, English |
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Professional Admissions / Qualifications
- Pennsylvania
- New Jersey
- New York
Court Admissions
- U.S. District Court - Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- U.S. Court of Appeals - Third Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. District Court - District of New Jersey
- State Supreme Court - Pennsylvania
- State Supreme Court - New Jersey
- U.S. District Court - Eastern District of New York
- U.S. District Court - Southern District of New York
Professional Affiliations
- Named by the Legal Intelligencer and Pennsylvania Law Weekly as one of the “Top 50 Lawyers Under 40” in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (2002)
Interests
Originally from Horsham, Pennsylvania, Ryan currently resides in Narberth, Pennsylvania.