Andrews, Susan Gayle

ARYAN D. ANDREWS is a Partner at Edelson LLC and the Chair of the Telecommunications Practice Group. Ryan has been appointed class counsel in numerous state and federal class actions nationwide that have resulted in nearly $100 million dollars in refunds to consumers, including Satterfield v. Simon & Schuster, Inc., No. C 06 2893 CW (N.D. Cal.), Gray v. Mobile Messenger Americas, Inc., No. 08-CV-61089 (S.D. Fla.), Lofton v. Bank of America Corp., No. 07-5892 (N.D. Cal.), Paluzzi v. Cellco Partnership, No. 07 CH 37213 (Cook County, Ill.), Parone v. m-Qube, Inc. No. 08 CH 15834 (Cook County, Ill.), and Kramer v. Autobytel, Inc., No. 10-cv-2722 (N.D. Cal. 2010).

In addition, Ryan has achieved groundbreaking court decisions protecting consumers through the application of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act to emerging text-messaging technology. Representative reported decisions include: Lozano v. Twentieth Century Fox, 702 F. Supp. 2d 999 (N.D. Ill. 2010), Satterfield v. Simon & Schuster, Inc. 569 F.3d 946 (9th Cir. 2009), and Kramer v. Autobytel, Inc., 759 F. Supp. 2d 1165 (N.D. Cal. 2010), In re Jiffy Lube Int'l Text Spam Litig, --- F. Supp. 2d ---, No. 11-md-2261, 2012 WL 762888 (S.D. Cal. March 9, 2012).

Ryan received his J.D. with High Honors from the Chicago-Kent College of Law and was named Order of the Coif. Recently, Ryan has returned to Chicago-Kent as an Adjunct Professor of Law, teaching a third-year seminar on Class Actions. While in law school, Ryan was a Notes & Comments Editor for The Chicago-Kent Law Review, as well as a teaching assistant for both Property Law and Legal Writing courses. Ryan externed for the Honorable Joan B. Gottschall in the United State District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, and earned CALI awards for the highest grade in five classes.

A native of the Detroit area, Ryan graduated from the University of Michigan, earning his B.A., with distinction, in Political Science and Communications.

Ryan is licensed to practice in Illinois state courts, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.