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About The Law Office of Melanie L. Ryan LLC
The Law Office of Melanie L. Ryan LLC was founded in 2015 by Melanie Ryan following her long career in the financial business in such roles as Operations Manager, Compliance Director and Counsel. Melanie brings twenty+ years experience working for U.S. broker dealers and investment advisors owned by international banks and interfacing with various regulatory bodies on behalf of her employers to The Law Office.
The Law Office seeks to capitalize on Ms. Ryan's financial markets and products knowledge to deliver quality, affordable legal services to other attorneys, small businesses and small to mid-sized broker dealers. Melanie offers such services as business formation, expert witnessing, outside legal opinions, regulatory consultancy and enforcement of debt judgements.
Melanie is a believer in "giving back" and "paying forward." Accordingly, she has assisted several 501(c) 3 charities with corporate formalities in the past. The Law Office accepts applications for and provides pro-bono legal services to certain charities.
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The Law Office is a LLC registered in New Jersey and Melanie is admitted to the New Jersey Bar and is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association.
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9 Cottage Place, Nutley, NJ, 07110
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Posted by Auguste | October 11, 2021 | Hired Attorney | Child Custody
Custody
I recommend to anyone to have her represent for the custody. " She has been helping me the last court date was. April, 2019. That was a big day for me. Thank you Melanie Ryan for represented me.
Posted by Jennifer | December 30, 2019 | Hired Attorney | Wills & Living Wills
Estate Documents
I recently hired Melanie Ryan to help me with estate documents, specifically an advanced health directive and my will. I never had either one in place and my situation was somewhat complicated, yet she did a wonderful job navigating all of the gray areas for me. She even consulted with a colleague t...
Posted by Scott | February 07, 2019 | Hired Attorney | Divorce & Separation
Divorce Case
I hired Melanie to handle my divorce case. Because of her extensive background dealing with divorce settlements in the state of NJ.Melanie is very organized with her communication, paper work filing and handling any issue that has come up. I highly recommend Melanie for all forms of Law practice she ...
Thank you Scott! This was a particularly difficult divorce, but it was a pleasure working with Scott and making sure he got the parenting time and holiday time he deserved!
Posted by Auguste | February 07, 2019 | Hired Attorney | Child Custody
Custody
Melanie Ryan is very knowledgeable lawyer, and very patient, with me. She takes her time to understand every details from my custody case. I suggest or recommend anyone to her with no regret.
It has been a pleasure dealing with you! It is very rewarding to achieve parenting time for a Dad who wants more time with his children.
Posted by anonymous | February 07, 2019 | Hired Attorney | Wills & Living Wills
Very Helpful!
Melanie wrote my will and health care directive with a very short turn around time! She explained to me everything that I needed to know and she even gave me a worksheet to help the process go smoothly. Her intern is a notary that was able to notarize my will at the final meeting. She truly does liv...
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2014
Internation Public Debt Offering - Best Counsel, ABA Law Journal
2016 - Present
Attorney, The Law Office of Melanie Ryan
2014 - 2016
Director of Legal and Compliance, Draco Capital Markets
2001 - 2014
Director of Compliance, Banca IMI - Intesa Sanpaolo
1994 - 2001
Vice President, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson
2016 - Present
NJSBASecurities and Regulation Committee
2016 - Present
Nutley Chamber of CommerceMember
2015 - Present
New Jersey State Bar AssociationSolo and Small Firm Member
2015 - Present
Nutley Lawyers ClubMember
1995 - 2014
SIFMAMember - Compliance & Legal
2006
JD - Juris Doctor
1986
BA - Bachelor of Arts
2016
Wills & Estates
2016
Business Law
English
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