Veteran-Led Trial Firm Ryman Clark PLLC Launches in Texas, Bringing BigLaw Experience to Tenants, Homeowners, and Policyholders

Clark is also the recipient of tonight’s TLVA Impact Award, recognizing a decade of service to the student-veteran community he helped build and to other Veteran Service Organizations, including Service to School, the Warrior-Scholar Project, wear blue: run to remember, and others. TLVA later elected Ryman as its president—a through-line that now runs directly into the firm’s founding.

Headquartered in Round Rock and with attorneys serving the Texas Triangle, Ryman Clark focuses on three areas where individual Texans and small businesses are consistently outmatched: landlord misconduct (residential and commercial), construction defect disputes, and property insurance and coverage litigation. Each is a field defined by asymmetry—large institutional defendants with in-house counsel and national insurance panels squared off against tenants, homeowners, and small operators who rarely have the resources to push a case to trial.

“We spent most of our careers representing giant corporations in eight- and nine-figure disputes, and we learned exactly how those companies litigate against individuals,” said Kyle Ryman, Co-Managing Partner. “We make it a fair fight.”

The firm’s public debut arrives at a moment when Texas’s housing and insurance systems are under visible strain. Rental disputes have intensified as the number of “accidental landlords” has climbed; homeowners are navigating repeated rounds of weather-driven claims against carriers who have tightened coverage; and the state’s decade-long building boom continues to generate defect litigation years after certificates of occupancy are issued. Ryman Clark’s practice map directly tracks those pressures.

“The pattern is the same whether you’re talking about a tenant whose landlord won’t fix a leaky roof or a family whose insurer has been ‘reviewing’ a claim for months,” said Alexander Clark, Co-Managing Partner. “The bet on the other side is that the client will give up before the case goes to trial. Our clients don’t give up, and neither do we.”

Kyle Ryman, Co-Managing Partner

Before opening Ryman Litigation PLLC in 2025—the predecessor practice that is now Ryman Clark—Ryman practiced at McKool Smith, the nationally recognized litigation boutique, and clerked for Chief Justice Nathan L. Hecht of the Supreme Court of Texas and Judge Don R. Willett of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He graduated with highest honors from The University of Texas School of Law in 2020, served as an Articles Editor on the Texas Law Review, served as President of The Law Veterans Association, was a member of the Supreme Court Clinic, and earned the Order of the Coif distinction. Ryman earned his undergraduate degree from Texas A&M University.

Ryman entered the legal profession after eight years as a U.S. Army Infantry Officer, commanding three companies during his service. He deployed twice to Afghanistan—first as a Pathfinder Platoon Leader, then as Aide-de-Camp to the Deputy Commanding General for Operations of the 101st Airborne Division—and later commanded a mechanized infantry company during a nine-month deployment to Korea. He is a graduate of U.S. Army Ranger School and the Maneuver Captain’s Career Course. His decorations include the Bronze Star Medal with one oak leaf cluster and the Meritorious Service Medal with one oak leaf cluster.

In the year before today’s announcement, Ryman’s predecessor practice had already delivered results that foreshadowed the firm’s model: Justice Court judgments for wrongfully charged tenants, court-ordered lease terminations, and repair-and-remedy settlements extracted from uncooperative landlords.

Alexander Clark, Co-Managing Partner

Clark joins Ryman Clark from Haynes Boone, where he spent nearly five years in the firm’s Insurance Recovery, Trials, and Crisis Management practice groups, representing corporate policyholders against their insurers. During his time at Haynes Boone, he also served as a teaching assistant for Insurance Law courses for partners who taught at SMU Dedman School of Law and the University of Tennessee College of Law. He founded the firm’s Military, Veterans, and Partners (MVP) Network and co-chaired it from 2021 to 2024. Before private practice, Clark clerked for U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel of the Western District of Texas.

Clark graduated with honors from The University of Texas School of Law in 2019, where he served as an Associate Editor of the Texas Law Review and as Professor Andrew Kull’s teaching assistant for Contracts. As a first-year student in 2016, he co-founded the Law Veterans Association, which is marking its 10-year anniversary with today’s firm announcement. During law school, he interned with Travis County District Judge Jan Soifer, the Texas Civil Rights Project, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas. Clark earned his undergraduate degree from Austin College, where he served as Student Body President.

Clark served six years in the U.S. Air Force Reserve as an enlisted intelligence analyst, rising to Non-Commissioned Officer in Charge (NCOIC) of Current Intelligence. He authored the Wing Aircrew Intelligence Course, graduated from the Advanced Air Mobility Intelligence Course, and received the Air Force Achievement Medal. Before that, Clark was a third-grade teacher with the Teach For America corps in San Antonio.

Texas Law Veteran Alumni Leaders

Clark and Miguel Ortiz co-founded TLVA as 1Ls in 2016 to support veteran J.D. candidates and recruit prospective military talent to the school. For the past three years, a group of TLVA alumni, led by Josh Davis (including Ryman, Clark, Ortiz, Sean Sheehy, and Wes Hunnell), has organized a special swearing-in ceremony for veterans who have recently graduated from law school and passed the bar exam. Each year near Veterans Day, Texas’s commander in chief, Governor Greg Abbott, has administered the attorney’s oath to newly minted lawyers.

I’ve known Kyle and Alex for a decade—since we were law students together at the University of Texas School of Law. Since law school, I’ve watched Kyle and Alex serve with distinction through prestigious clerkships and at the very top litigation firms in Texas. In the Texas rental market, the homeowners and property‑insurance space, and the defect‑litigation pipeline, everyday Texans are too often outmatched by scale, complexity, and power imbalance. Kyle and Alex bring the discipline, leadership, and military bearing to close that gap—qualities forged through service and proven in practice.

“What starts here changes the world” is a line every UT Law student hears. I’m immensely proud of Kyle and Alex for living that ideal and delivering on it.

• Miguel Ortiz, real estate attorney at Jackson Walker

The firm commences operations with a team comprising six attorneys, each of whom graduated from The University of Texas School of Law.

About Ryman Clark PLLC

Ryman Clark PLLC is a Texas trial firm representing individuals and businesses in disputes against landlords, builders, and insurers. Founded by Kyle Ryman and Alexander Clark, the firm serves clients across the Texas Triangle. More information: www.rymanclark.com.

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