Ryan Sweet

Ryan Sweet is an accomplished trial attorney with extensive experience in asbestos and personal injury litigation. He has taken and defended hundreds of depositions, including those of clients, experts, and corporate representatives, and has secured several multi-million-dollar verdicts as first or second chair in jury trials across the United States.

As a first-chair trial attorney, Ryan has led all aspects of the litigation of personal injury and wrongful death cases from inception through verdict, playing a central role in strategy, case development, and trial execution. In March of 2025, as first-chair trial attorney, Ryan led a team which secured an $18,000,000 verdict in Broward County, Florida for a 64-year-old woman suffering from mesothelioma. The client was diagnosed with peritoneal mesothelioma after having spent years in her family’s auto shops and laundering her father’s and brothers’ asbestos contaminated work clothes.

He also obtained a $7 million verdict against Volkswagen.

As a first-chair trial attorney, Ryan has led all aspects of the litigation of personal injury and wrongful death cases from inception through verdict, playing a central role in strategy, case development, and trial execution including a UTV roll-over accident which claimed the life of a fourteen-year-old girl.

Prior to joining the firm, Ryan successfully obtained summary judgment in favor of plaintiffs in an UTV roll-over accident which claimed the life of a fourteen-year-old girl.

Earlier in his career, as a prosecutor, Ryan obtained jury verdicts in homicide cases as both first and second chair. He acted as lead attorney on thousands of criminal offenses, ranging from DUIs to first-degree murder.

Ryan began his legal career as a law clerk for the Honorable David A. Hylla, former Chief Judge of Madison County, and as an intern for the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Shortly thereafter, Ryan began working for a local worker’s compensation firm where he first discovered his passion for zealously advocating for his injured clients.

Not afraid of the courtroom, Ryan has extensive trial experience having more than a dozen jury trials under his belt.

PRACTICE AREAS

• Mesothelioma and Asbestos

EDUCATION

Saint Louis University School of Law

ADMISSIONS

• Illinois
• Missouri
• Florida
• Maryland

LATEST VERDICT

In March of 2025, as first-chair trial attorney, Ryan led a team which secured an $18,000,000 verdict in Broward County, Florida for a 64-year-old woman suffering from mesothelioma. The client was diagnosed with peritoneal mesothelioma after having spent years in her family’s auto shops and laundering her father’s and brothers’ asbestos contaminated work clothes.  The jury found the defendant’s brake grinder led to her secondary and bystander exposure to asbestos and apportioned the greatest percentage of fault to the brake grinder defendant.