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Steig D. Olson

11 Broadway, Suite 615
New York, NY 10004
212-830-9850 ph
212.480.8560 fax
solson@hausfeldllp.com
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Steig D. Olson, a partner in Hausfeld LLP’s New York office, is dedicated to helping aggrieved businesses and persons pursue legal redress. He practices in the fields of human rights and antitrust law. He also does pro bono work in the area of child refugee law and helps coordinate the firm’s pro bono practice.

Mr. Olson currently is one of the main counsel in Balintulo v. Daimler AG (S.D.N.Y.), in which he represents South African victims of human rights abuses by the former apartheid regime against corporations alleged to have aided and abetted the government’s commission of the abuses. The case has resulted in several important decisions, including Khulumani v. Barclay National Bank Ltd., 504 F.3d 254 (2d Cir. 2007), in which the Second Circuit held that plaintiffs could seek to establish aiding and abetting liability under the Alien Tort Statute.

Mr. Olson also represents businesses in major antitrust actions seeking damages allegedly caused by corporate anticompetitive conduct, including price-fixing conspiracies. Mr. Olson currently serves as a lead counsel in In re Rail Freight Fuel Surcharge Antitrust Litigation (D.D.C.), in which shippers nationwide seek damages for alleged price fixing of rail freight fuel surcharges by the nation’s dominant freight-shipping railroads; and In re Flat Glass Antitrust Litigation (II) (W.D. Pa.), alleging price fixing by manufacturers of flat glass used in the construction industry.

Mr. Olson has played a major role in numerous cases that have resulted in substantial recoveries for overcharged purchasers.  For example, he was one of the leading lawyers in Molecular Diagnostics Laboratories v. Hoffman-La Roche, Inc., et al. (D.D.C.), alleging unlawful monopolization on behalf of a class of purchasers of an enzyme used in DNA amplification, human-genome research, and medical diagnostics.
In his pro bono practice, Mr. Olson recently employed an innovative legal theory to win a grant of asylum by a New York Immigration Judge on behalf of a woman who came to the United States after suffering intra-familial sexual abuse as a child in El Salvador.  The Government has appealed the decision to the Board of Immigration Appeals, where it argues that the case raises novel issues of refugee law.

Before joining Hausfeld LLP, Mr. Olson clerked for the Honorable Barrington D. Parker, Jr., of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the Honorable Vaughn R. Walker, now Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.