Ryan Wu

Ryan Wu leads his firm's (Capstone Law APC) appeals and complex motions team. As an expert in class and PAGA procedure, he received the prestigious California Lawyer Attorney of the Year (CLAY) award for the landmark decision Iskanian v. CLS Transportation Los Angeles, 59 Cal.4th 348 (2014). In recent years, Mr. Wu has attained several important victories for consumers and workers before the California Supreme Court, and Daily Journal has twice honored cases he handled as a “Top Appellate Reversal.” He also oversees the firm’s high-stakes fee disputes and settlement approval, with a highlight being his central role in achieving the highly publicized Ford transmission settlement, valued at over $100 million.

Mr. Wu graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 2001, where he was an associate editor of the Michigan Journal of Law Reform and contributor to the law school newspaper. He received his undergraduate degree in political science, with honors, from the University of California, Berkeley.

Mr. Wu is a Bar-certified Appellate Specialist and currently serves on the Committee for Appellate Courts for the California Lawyers Association (CLA). He is an editor for the CLA’s Litigation Update, and his work has been published by the California Labor & Employment Review, California Litigation Review, CEB, and Daily Journal. Mr. Wu is regularly invited to speak at programs for continuing legal education. He was named a Southern California Super Lawyer for 2022.