Ryan McCarl

Ryan McCarl, a founding partner of the business litigation firm Rushing McCarl LLP, has taught legal writing and strategy to audiences including the ABA Litigation Section and the Texas Office of the Attorney General. His book Elegant Legal Writing was published by the University of California Press in February 2024. Before co-founding Rushing McCarl LLP, McCarl researched artificial intelligence and taught Advanced Legal Writing at the UCLA School of Law, where he designed and taught a course on advanced legal writing. Previously, McCarl clerked for the Honorable David M. Ebel on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and worked as a litigation attorney at WilmerHale and Hueston Hennigan. He has published articles about complex topics ranging from AI to claim preclusion in outlets including the Stanford Journal of International Law and Cincinnati Law Review. McCarl earned a J.D. with Honors from the University of Chicago Law School and holds M.A. degrees from the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan as well as a B.A. from the University of Chicago.