About the Firm

Ryan Hughes founded Tuple Legal in 2017. Tuple Legal represents charities, political groups, social welfare organizations, social clubs, and many other forms of nonprofit organizations.

In 2019 and 2020, Ryan had the privilege of serving as General Counsel to the Tom Steyer 2020 presidential campaign. In that role, Ryan reviewed hundreds of contracts governing the campaign’s $352 million budget and operations in 45 field offices in 11 states. Ryan ensured the campaign met all its legal obligations to obtain access to ballots in all 57 states and jurisdictions. Ryan also led employee compliance workshops and reviewed thousands of campaign communications.

Before founding Tuple Legal, Ryan represented nonprofit organizations, trade associations, labor unions, corporations, political action committees, and ballot measure committees in nonprofit and political ethics compliance matters.

Following law school, Ryan served as political researcher to then-Attorney General Jerry Brown and Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez. During law school, Ryan was a judicial extern for Justice Carlos Moreno of the California Supreme Court. In law school, Ryan drafted regulations to implement statewide ballot initiatives and mediated small claims cases with litigants. Following college, Ryan taught sixth grade in a high-needs area of the Mississippi Delta as a Teach For America corps member. In college, he interned for Governor Gray Davis and worked on Governor Davis’ anti-recall committee.

Ryan has served in leadership roles for several progressive organizations. He was a fellow and board member of New Leaders Council, a group that supports progressive social entrepreneurs. He served on the board of the San Fernando Valley Young Democrats. Ryan got his start in politics by helping to build one of the largest and strongest College Democrats clubs in the nation.

Ryan received his B.A. from University of Virginia (2004) and his J.D., cum laude, from UC Law San Francisco (2010; formerly UC Hastings College of Law).