Meet Ryan Alexander

From a farm outside a steel town, to Las Vegas

Ryan grew up in the Niagara region of Ontario, on a farm outside a steel town. His mother’s family were union iron and steelworkers; his father was a military officer. Work, discipline, and loyalty to the people beside you were not abstractions in that house. They were the family business.

Boarding school in New Zealand and college in Hawaii widened the world quickly. At Brigham Young University Hawaii he studied international business, graduated magna cum laude, and performed in Samoan and Maori dance troupes, learning cultures from the inside by dancing in them. He then took two years off for a religious mission in Seattle, working solely with Spanish-speaking immigrant families: helping them find jobs, furniture, and a foothold in a new community. As he puts it, their problems were our problems. That work, in Spanish, in other people’s hardest chapters, is where the counselor instinct took root.

At Harvard Law School, Ryan trained in the Criminal Justice Institute clinic and the Recording Artists’ Project. In a class full of future firm lawyers, he was the only student who said he wanted to be a plaintiff’s lawyer, and the only one who started his own practice right after licensing. He wanted to represent people, not portfolios, and he wanted his name on the door to mean something to the families who walked in.

That is still the practice he runs in Las Vegas today, with a special focus on injuries that do not show on the surface, including brain injuries, where the client in front of him may be struggling to find words, and a spouse is doing half the talking. He is patient with that. It is, honestly, the part of lawyering he enjoys most: the attorney as counselor, not just advocate.

The results match the philosophy: a $26.5 million judgment in a brain injury case, millions recovered for injury clients, and more than 2,300 clients served. Numbers like that come from the unglamorous work of documenting injuries properly and refusing the first low offer.

Ryan is married and the father of three children. Outside the office, his family is the center of things. His charity work through Give Hope and Help, supporting Las Vegas families and communities abroad with food, scholarships, and emergency relief, grows out of the same place as the mission years: show up, carry something heavy for somebody else.

If your family is dealing with a brain injury and you want a lawyer who will take the time to actually hear you, call (702) 333-8888. The conversation is free, and there is no obligation attached to it.