Ryan D. Israel

Ryan D. Israel
Partner

Ryan D. Israel is one of the founding partners of the Washington, DC-based law firm, Meeks, Butera & Israel PLLC.  With over 20 years of legal and federal policy-making experience, he specializes in the areas of financial services, tax, health care, and business formation and helps clients advance their legal and public policy objectives on Capitol Hill and before federal executive branch agencies. He also advises clients on government ethics, campaign finance, and lobbying disclosure laws, including Federal Election Commission and state election law obligations.

Israel spent four years on Capitol Hill as a legislative aide to a senior member of the House Financial Services Committee from his home state of Illinois.  Following law school, Israel began his legal career in 2002 at the government affairs law firm of Butera & Andrews in DC where he represented a wide variety of financial services and trade group clients.  Prior to establishing his current firm, he spent seven years as Special Counsel to one of the largest law firms in the southeastern United States.

Israel holds a Juris Doctor degree from the Pepperdine University School of Law in California where he was a Fellow and Founding Student Board Member of the Center for Entrepreneurship and the Law, and a Bachelor of Arts degree, with honors, from the George Washington University in Washington, DC.