About Ryan

Ryan J. Byrnes is an associate attorney in the firm’s Tax, Trusts, and Estates and Business, Corporate & Commercial Departments. He focuses his practice on complex estate planning, trust and estate administration, estate litigation, and providing business and transactional counsel to clients. Ryan’s multi-disciplinary approach to protecting the assets of his clients enables him to provide advice when tax, trusts, and estates matters intersect with other areas of law.

He has conducted various Supreme Court, Superior Court and Surrogate’s Court proceedings throughout New York and New Jersey, representing clients in a wide range of estate related litigation including accounting disputes, claims against fiduciaries, and will contests. Ryan draws on his experience to counsel clients on a wide array of estate planning and Surrogate’s Court matters to avoid common missteps that may otherwise lead to costly litigation. He also advises and represents clients on succession planning, sales and purchases of their businesses, asset purchase and sale agreements, residential and commercial real estate transactions, and small business counseling. Prior to joining Wells, Jaworski & Liebman, LLP, Ryan practiced in the Trusts & Estates Department at a Rockland County law firm, as well as and a at a midsize law firm based in Westchester and New York City.

Ryan earned his undergraduate degree from McDaniel College where he majored in Sociology with a specialization in Criminal Justice and received a Minor in Arabic language and studies. While studying law at New England Law | Boston, he was recognized on the Public Service Honor Roll for his time volunteering with the New England Innocence Project, which provides pro bono legal representation to individuals who have been wrongfully convicted.