Jerri A. Ryan, Esq. Thorp Reed & Armstrong, LLP, Pittsburgh Ms. Ryan is a partner at the Pittsburgh office of the law firm of Thorp Reed & Armstrong, LLP, where she is a member of the E-Discovery and Records Management Committee, the In-house Training Committee, and the Recruitment Committee. She has represented clients in a wide variety of litigation matters in federal and state courts in Pennsylvania and California. She practices in the area of corporate and commercial litigation and is admitted to practice before the courts of Pennsylvania, California, and the United States District Courts for the Western District of Pennsylvania, the Southern District of California, and the Central District of California, as well as the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Ms. Ryan is a member of the board of directors of Junior Achievement of Western Pennsylvania, Inc. She also regularly provides pro bono legal services, including representing plaintiffs in protection-from-abuse proceedings. She received her B.A. in 1994, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Notre Dame, and her J.D. in 1997, from the Notre Dame Law School, where she was the notes editor for the Journal of College and University Law.