About Us

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Our History

Ryan Whaley is a litigation-based law firm based in Oklahoma City that touts a national practice. Formed in 1999 after Pat Ryan finished his service as the United States Attorney who handled the Oklahoma City bombing prosecution and reunited with his former partner, Phillip Whaley, the firm has grown to nearly twenty attorneys. The firm’s deep bench of lawyers lend their expertise in all forms of litigation, including environmental and energy law, insurance defense, and personal injury, as well as regulatory matters. Ryan Whaley prides itself on a tradition of providing first-rate, efficient representation to its clients

After 20 years in downtown Oklahoma City, the firm’s “new” home is a renovated, 101-year-old building listed on the National Register located in our city’s historically important Deep Deuce neighborhood. While transitioning to a new space, the firm continues to embrace the core values of innovation, expertise, and connectedness established by its founders.

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Our offices are located at 400 North Walnut in the historic Oklahoma City Schools Administration Building, which was originally built in 1919 and selected for inclusion in Oklahoma’s National Register of Historic Places 100 years later – in 2019. The building was designed by renowned Oklahoma architect Solomon Layton, and is the latest of his twenty-three buildings listed on the National Register, an Oklahoma record for a single architect. The building was first occupied by the board of education of the Oklahoma City schools on July 12, 1919. As the plaque on the front column outside indicates, this historical site served as the base for the U.S. Army forces charged with maintaining law and order during and after the land run of April 22, 1889. In a nod to the building’s history, Mr. Layton’s role as the architect of our State Capitol, and its new life as home to our law firm, several historical round light fixtures can be found throughout our offices, which hung in the courtroom of the Oklahoma Supreme Court in our State Capitol for nearly 80 years.

Building Design-Builder: VINCIT Constructors

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Our offices are located at 400 North Walnut in the historic Oklahoma City Schools Administration Building, which was originally built in 1919 and selected for inclusion in Oklahoma’s National Register of Historic Places 100 years later – in 2019. The building was designed by renowned Oklahoma architect Solomon Layton, and is the latest of his twenty-three buildings listed on the National Register, an Oklahoma record for a single architect. The building was first occupied by the board of education of the Oklahoma City schools on July 12, 1919. As the plaque on the front column outside indicates, this historical site served as the base for the U.S. Army forces charged with maintaining law and order during and after the land run of April 22, 1889. In a nod to the building’s history, Mr. Layton’s role as the architect of our State Capitol, and its new life as home to our law firm, several historical round light fixtures can be found throughout our offices, which hung in the courtroom of the Oklahoma Supreme Court in our State Capitol for nearly 80 years.

Building Design-Builder: VINCIT Constructors