W. Ryan Snow

Ryan handles high-stakes state and federal trials, arbitrations, and mediations, with a focus on complex business disputes, construction law, and maritime law. He was the 2024 President of the Virginia Bar Association and Managing Partner of CWM from 2012 to 2020. In 2024, he was included in the “Virginia 500 Power List” by Virginia Business magazine. In 2025 and 2026, he was listed among the "150 Most Influential Leaders" in coastal Virginia.

Ryan's experience includes corporate disputes, construction cases, maritime cases, business conspiracies, technology disputes, government contracts, railroad cases, and others. He successfully argued one of the seminal financial tracing cases in the Virginia Supreme Court and was co-counsel in one of the largest patent cases tried to jury verdict in Norfolk federal court.

Ryan is listed in Best Lawyers in America® and has been selected a Virginia Business Legal Elite in four categories. In 2025, VLW honored him as a "Go To Lawyer" for Business Litigation, and in 2026, Super Lawyers selected him among the Top 5 business litigators in Virginia. He has been named “Lawyer of the Year - Construction" for his region five times by Best Lawyers in America®. He is a past Chair of the Construction & Public Contracts Law Section of the VBA and a former President of the I’Anson-Hoffman American Inn of Court.