{"id":84,"date":"2022-03-22T00:27:32","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T05:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ryan.witthans.com\/?page_id=84"},"modified":"2025-09-19T21:20:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T04:20:02","slug":"work","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ryan.witthans.com\/?page_id=84","title":{"rendered":"Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I am a partner at <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fhlawllp.com\" target=\"_blank\">Finestone Hayes LLP<\/a><\/strong>, where I focus my practice on federal civil litigation, appeals, and bankruptcy law. I have successfully briefed and argued cases up to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. My full bio, including a list of representative cases, is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fhlawllp.com\/_files\/ugd\/d178e5_c9dc1f55aac644c8b39ddd0d7ef95d37.pdf?index=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From 2014 to 2018 I served as a judicial law clerk for the <strong>Honorable Stephen L. Johnson<\/strong> in the <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.canb.uscourts.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">United States Bankruptcy Court<\/a><\/strong> for the Northern District of California, San Jose Division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Professional Community<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I am on the Board of Directors of the <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/babf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Area Bankruptcy Forum<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was the Leadership Team of the <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.calbf.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">California Bankruptcy Forum&#8217;s<\/a> Annual Insolvency Conference<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am a contributor to the Turnaround Management Association&#8217;s <strong>Journal of Corporate Renewal<\/strong> (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/turnaround.org\/jcr\/2020\/07\/what-restructuring-professionals-need-know-about-california-consumer-privacy-act\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>), the California Receivers Forum&#8217;s <strong>Receivership News<\/strong> (published <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/19vv29NvOJmeKPgaJBnS2kbLmzbXAxDeU\/view\" target=\"_blank\">in<\/a> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1pBly6oL_1YXUpKSJYQvGhsATmJpW5JPt\/view\" target=\"_blank\">three<\/a> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1fawgXYlJEhNeEL3ozfy7TJMe5YV7JQRN\/view\" target=\"_blank\">parts<\/a>), and the <strong>Recent Developments in Business Bankruptcy<\/strong> program presented by the Bay Area Bankruptcy Forum and the Bar Association of San Francisco from 2017 to 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am the former Co-President of the <strong>Congressman Don Edwards Inn of Court<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Court Admissions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I am admitted to the following courts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>State Bar of California<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>United States District Court, Northern District of California<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>United States Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of California<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>United States District Court, Central District of California<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>United States Bankruptcy Court, Central District of California<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>United States District Court, Eastern District of California<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>United States Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of California<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Education<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I earned my J.D. from from the <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uchastings.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">University of California College of the Law, San Francisco<\/a><\/strong> (formerly known as the <strong>University of California, Hastings College of the Law<\/strong>) in 2014 and spent a semester studying law abroad at <strong>Shanghai Jiao Tong University<\/strong>. While in law school, I received awards for my writing, oral advocacy, and negotiation skills and served as Senior Article Editor for the Hastings Communication and Entertainment Law Journal, <span class=\"uppercase\">Comm\/Ent<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview I am a partner at Finestone Hayes LLP, where I focus my practice on federal civil litigation, appeals, and bankruptcy law. I have successfully briefed and argued cases up to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. My full bio, including a list of representative cases, is available here. From 2014 to 2018 I served [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryan.witthans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryan.witthans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryan.witthans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryan.witthans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryan.witthans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/ryan.witthans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/ryan.witthans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryan.witthans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}