About Ryan Sullivan
Ryan K. Sullivan is a trial attorney licensed in Connecticut and Massachusetts whose practice focuses on complex litigation and appellate law. Before joining RisCassi & Davis, he served as a law clerk for the Honorable Alexandra D. DiPentima, Chief Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court. He graduated from Western New England University School of Law magna cum laude, received 17 CALI awards for academic excellence in courses including Torts, Products Liability, Civil Procedure, and Evidence, served as Note Editor on the Law Review, and received the Benjamin D. Novak Award for outstanding legal writing.
He also interned with the Office of the Public Defender and clerked at RisCassi & Davis during law school. Throughout his career at the firm, he has achieved multiple seven-figure settlements and judgments for his clients. He has been recognized as a Rising Star by Super Lawyers and as a Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch honoree every year since 2023, and received a Rising Stars award from the ALM/Law.com New England Legal Awards in 2025.
Proven verdicts and settlements at RisCassi & Davis
These results are credited to RisCassi & Davis. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
A Hartford jury returned a $7.25 million verdict for the estate of Daniel DiNardi, a Connecticut DOT supervisor fatally struck by a tractor-trailer while working on the shoulder of Route 8 northbound near Waterbury.
RisCassi and Davis attorneys secured a $6.5 million settlement for students hurt when a school bus plunged down a 20-foot I-84 embankment, killing a 16-year-old Rocky Hill boy on his way to a robotics competition.
Michael Jainchill of RisCassi & Davis secured a $3.8 million settlement for the adult children of Janet Pulver, a 66-year-old Avon grandmother killed when a speeding driver crossed the center line and struck her car head-on in Farmington, Connecticut.
A Hartford Superior Court jury returned a $3,476,025 verdict in September 2014 for motorcyclist Matthew Karotkin, who suffered skull fractures and a lung injury when a UPS driver cut left across his path at a Windsor, Connecticut intersection.
A Waterbury jury returned a $2 million verdict in November 2024 for construction laborer Keven Shepard, who was electrocuted when an excavator struck an Eversource power line marked nearly eight feet from its actual underground position.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
