California license and practice

Thomas Jay Ryu is admitted to practice law in California and is a member of the State Bar of California in good standing (State Bar of California #155749). He is also admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of California, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and all four U.S. District Courts in California. Verify the current individual Bar record at apps.calbar.ca.gov/attorney/Licensee/Detail/155749 before hiring an attorney.

Thomas Jay Ryu is the Managing Partner of Ryu & Yun, LLP in Los Angeles, a firm he founded with Nathan S. Yun. He has 30 years of legal experience: he began his career at a large firm in downtown Los Angeles and began practicing in Koreatown in 1994. He represents major Korean chaebol clients and well-known Koreatown small businesses, including defense work in suits connected to the BBK scandal involving former Korean President Myung Bak Lee, and his client base reaches Korea, Hong Kong, China, Japan and France in international transactions and complex business litigation. He has handled extensive jury trials, bench trials, mediations, arbitrations, depositions and negotiations, and has been interviewed on NBC Los Angeles, CBS Los Angeles/KCAL News and MBC America, and hosted his own law education and commentary radio program on a Korean radio station. He graduated as high school valedictorian with a 4.0 GPA, studied psychology with a specialization in business administration at UCLA on an academic scholarship, and earned his law degree from Whittier College School of Law on an academic scholarship, where he was on the Dean’s List, Law Review and Moot Court. He is fluent in Korean and is also a licensed Real Estate Broker.

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