Ryan Giggi

Ryan Giggi is an Associate in Freeman Mathis & Gary’s Boston and Hartford offices. His focus is in Labor & Employment, Professional Liability and business disputes.

Ryan attended Johns Hopkins University (class of 2014) and Boston University School of Law (class of 2021), where he served as a Notes Editor on the Boston University Law Review. Since joining FMG, Ryan has focused his practice in defending employers in various discrimination, retaliation, and wage & hour claims, and defending accountants, attorneys, architects, and engineers in professional malpractice claims, and representing businesses and individuals in complex contractual disputes, securities claims, and commercial disputes. Ryan also has significant experience prosecuting and defending unfair business practice claims and defending general liability claims.

Connecticut

Massachusetts

United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts

• “Be advised: Connecticut Supreme Court allows third-party to bring malpractice claim against attorney for failing to advise decedent client,” Co-authored with Edward Storck, Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP BlogLine 
• “Top five best practices for interactive processes with employees,” Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP BlogLine 
• “It pays to be sick: Connecticut broadens its paid sick leave law,” Co-authored with Jody Cappello, Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP BlogLine 
• “For the Record: Best Practices for Maintaining Personnel Records and Employee Files,” Co-authored with Janet Barringer, Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP BlogLine 
• “Show Your Work! Massachusetts Appeals Court Holds Expert’s Opinion Insufficient in Legal Malpractice Case,” Co-authored with Paul Boylan, Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP BlogLine 
• “Buyers Beware: Massachusetts’s Supreme Judicial Court Upholds Oral Exclusivity Contract In Favor of Buyer’s Real Estate Agent,” Co-authored with Jessica Gray Kelly, Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP BlogLine 
• Chapter in Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (MCLE)’s Massachusetts Expert Witnesses, Co-authored with Nancy Reimer and Catherine Bednar, on use of Accountants as expert witnesses

• Secured a dismissal of an unfair business practice and contractual offset claims in favor of a client credit union, which had been brought by a former contractor of the credit union.  Ryan was the primary author of the brief and delivered the oral argument.
• Assisted in securing a trial verdict in favor of a client airport operator bringing unfair business practice and trespass claims against a neighboring business.
• Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office, Appeals Unit (internship)
  • During this internship, Mr. Giggi was a primary author of two appellate briefs that were submitted to the Massachusetts Court of Appeals, and he appeared in oral argument to support one of these briefs. The District Attorney’s Office won both appeals.

• FMG Trial Academy Graduate 

• “Disability, Reasonable Accommodations and Qualification Standards Under the ADA,” FMG Webinar, June 2025