Ryan M. Schmitz
Ryan M. Schmitz specializes in enforcing workers’ rights and other civil rights. Ryan prosecutes cases from investigation through the agency, trial court, and appeals stages. He has served as co-counsel in cases that resulted in successful jury verdicts, including Ako-Annan v. Eastern Maine Medical Center, in which a Northern Maine jury awarded $ 3 million, the largest verdict in a race discrimination case in Maine history. Ryan has also successfully negotiated for millions of dollars in settlements.
Ryan graduated cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center, where he was a staff member of the Georgetown Law Journal and executive editor of the Annual Review of Criminal Procedure. After graduating from law school, he served for a year as a law fellow with Disability Rights Maine, focusing on discrimination based on substance use disorder in employment, housing, and public accommodations. Ryan is the author of Substance Use as a Second-Class Disability: A Survey of the ADA’s Disarmament of Individuals in Recovery, published in the Maine Law Review. Ryan also served as a law clerk for Associate Justice Andrew M. Horton of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.
Education:
- Georgetown University Law Center; cum laude
- Boston College; Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Honor Roll
Distinctions:
- Clerked for Associate Justice Andrew M. Horton of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court