David R. Olan

David R. Olan: Attorney with Olan Law
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Biography

Tributes: The Firm has achieved the highest rating for legal ability in Martindale-Hubbell; Best Lawyers of America, 2011, 2012; Southern California Super Lawyers, 2006-2011. Author: "Construction Defect and Land Subsidence Litigation," California Supplement, Wiley Law Publications, 1989. Law School: Semi-finalist: Jessup International Moot Court; Levitt Law and Motion Moot Court. Recipient, Honors for Trial Advocacy, Lawyering Skills. International Law Society, University of San Diego, Treasurer, 1986-1987, and President, 1987-1988. Intern, California Coastal Commission.

Association of Surfing Lawyers (Founding Member).

Areas of Practice (38)

  • Personal Injury
  • Accidents
  • Animal Attacks
  • Aquatic Injuries
  • Automobile Accidents and Injuries
  • Automobile Negligence
  • Bicycle Accidents
  • Boating Accidents
  • Bodily Injury
  • Brain Injury
  • Bus Accidents
  • Catastrophic Injury
  • Commercial Vehicle Liability
  • Cumulative Trauma
  • Dog Bites
  • Electrical Injury
  • Head Injury
  • Motor Vehicle Accidents and Injuries
  • Motorcycle Accidents
  • Pedestrian Injuries
  • Plaintiffs Personal Injury
  • Power Line Contact Injury
  • Rental Vehicle Litigation
  • School Bus Accidents
  • Severe Burns
  • Sexual Abuse
  • Slip and Fall
  • Spinal Injury
  • Employment Discrimination
  • Sexual Harassment
  • Wrongful Termination
  • Insurance Bad Faith
  • Sexual Assault
  • Premises Liability
  • Products Liability
  • Product Defects
  • Uninsured and Underinsured Motorists
  • Wrongful Death

Education & Credentials

University Attended:
University of California, at Los Angeles, B.A., 1985; Salzburg Institute of International Studies, Austria, taught by Justice A. Kennedy, 1988
Law School Attended:
University of San Diego, J.D., 1989
Year of First Admission:
1989
Admission:
1989, California; 1990, U.S. District Court, Southern, Central and Northern Districts of California
Memberships:
State Bar of California; Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (Former Member, Board of Governors, 2007); American Board of Trial Advocates (Member, 2003—); American Association of Justice; Western Trial Lawyers Association; Santa Monica Bar Association (Board of Directors).
Languages:
German and Spanish
Birth Information:
Hollywood, California, June 9, 1962
ISLN:
901390620
Transactions:
$2.8 Million SETTLEMENT for personal injuries suffered in a construction accident; $2.4 Million SETTLEMENT for sexual abuse of child in a foster care facility; $1.6 Million SETTLEMENT in a product liability case (A 48-year-old man suffered second and third degree burns over a large portion of his body due to a defective hot water heater); $1.5 Million SETTLEMENT for serious personal injuries from a motorcycle accident (A motorcyclist and passenger were riding down a street in Ventura when the car in front of them made a U-turn. Both suffered serious personal injuries, including numerous fractures); $1.4 Million MEDIATION in the wrongful death of a Palm Desert woman whose injuries in a motor vehicle accident were so severe that she died from them; $1.25 Million JUDGMENT in a premises liability case due to negligent security at a paintball facility where a man was attacked and stabbed; $1.1 Million SETTLEMENT for serious personal injuries for a young girl who suffered a severe dog bite to the face; $1 Million VERDICT for a pedestrian who suffered serious personal injuries when hit by a car in a motor vehicle accident; $900,000 SETTLEMENT in San Bernardino County for a young man who was blinded when the motorcycle he was riding in the sand dunes fell into the sand rail and he was run over by an ATV; $640,000 ARBITRATION against Farmers Insurance in an uninsured motorist and bad faith insurance case for serious personal injuries and subsequent surgery arising out of a motor vehicle accident; $600,000 VERDICT for the wrongful death of a security guard at a shipyard; $585,000 ARBITRATION in a motor vehicle accident case for the serious personal injuries of a passenger in one of the cars; $545,000 SETTLEMENT in a product liability case against the manufacturer and supplier of an herbal diet supplement for the wrongful death of a woman who suffered liver failure due to the supplement; $505,000 SETTLEMENT for an ex-FBI agent who was rear-ended in a motor vehicle accident in which she suffered mild brain injuries; $500,000 + SETTLEMENT in an insurance bad faith case for the director of a company who was sued individually in a breach of promise suit that the company's insurance company refused to defend under the company's director and officers policy; $500,000 SETTLEMENT for a woman who sustained serious personal injuries in a truck accident when the truck ran her off the road; $450,000 SETTLEMENT when a motorcyclist sustained serious personal injuries in a motorcycle accident with a car; $405,000 SETTLEMENT in a premises liability case for the family of a little girl who drowned in a swimming pool; $400,000 SETTLEMENT against a major movie studio for the copyright theft of a motion picture screenplay; $385,000 SETTLEMENT in a premises liability case for a woman who sustained serious personal injuries after a trip and fall in an apartment complex; $350,000 SETTLEMENT for serious personal injuries in a hit-and-run motor vehicle accident (The passenger in a car was severely injured when the car she was in was rear-ended by a SUV while it was stopped at a red light. The car was hit so hard that it rotated and traveled across the intersection until it collided with the curb on the other side); $325,000 SETTLEMENT for a slip and fall on stairs causing serious personal injuries, including a fractured hip; $300,000 SETTLEMENT in a wrongful death case for premises liability. A couple attended a party in Pasadena advertised on the Internet (They were accosted by assailants and the husband was beaten to death while his wife was made to watch. $321,000 VERDICT in a premises liability case against a homeowners association for an elderly woman who suffered serious personal injuries when she was hit by a garage door); $300,000 SETTLEMENT in a premises liability case for the wrongful death of a 14-year-old who drowned in a pool; $300,000 SETTLEMENT in a wrongful termination case against a popular restaurant when she was fired because she was pregnant; $262,000 VERDICT for the serious personal injuries caused by injuries received in a motor vehicle accident; $115,000 SETTLEMENT in Santa Barbara when a woman suffered personal injuries in a slip and fall on a handicap ramp that was not built to code.
Hobbies & interests:
Surfing; skiing; karate Black Belt; environmentalist.

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