Ryan Scarborough

Professor Scarborough focuses his legal practice on mass tort product liability cases in both federal multi-district litigation and state courts across the country. Since joining Williams & Connolly LLP in 2000, he has also handled a wide variety of civil matters involving professional liability, securities, and banking. With experience in all phases of trial, Professor Scarborough has examined witnesses at trial, briefed and argued numerous substantive and evidentiary motions at both the trial and appellate levels, prepared, defended and deposed fact and expert witnesses, and overseen the collection, review, and production of documents.

Professor Scarborough has lectured about developing persuasive expert witnesses at the American Conference Institute’s annual Drug & Medical Device Litigation conference. His pro bono work includes an active role in supervising attorneys who represent clients in Social Security disability cases and landlord-tenant disputes.

Professor Scarborough was born and raised in Austin, Texas. Proficient in Japanese, he spent a college semester abroad in Osaka, before graduating from Duke University in 1994. He returned to Japan for a year as a Fulbright Scholar to study local politics at Tohoku University in Sendai before entering Harvard Law School, where he earned his law degree and was Primary Editor, Harvard Law Review. Professor Scarborough clerked for U.S. District Court Judge Alan C. Kay in Honolulu before joining Williams & Connolly.