Eric R. Olson
Olson Grimsley Kawanabe Hinchliff & Murray LLC
Eric Olson, Esq., Before co-founding Olson Grimsley, a plaintiffs-focused trial firm, Eric served as the Solicitor General of Colorado. He led investigations of the Aurora Police and Fire Departments after the killing of Elijah McClain that resulted in one of the first state consent decrees in the country and the Catholic Church for child sex abuse. Eric also designed and executed settlement strategies with McKinsey that led to a $573 million, 49-state settlement for its work contributing to the opioid crisis and separately with local governments for a first-in-the-country agreement that brought $740 million in opioid settlements to Colorado. Eric previously was a trial lawyer at Bartlit Beck. Eric clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, D.C. Circuit Judge Harry Edwards, and chair of the Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation, District Court Judge John Heyburn in Kentucky. Eric is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, a Member of the American Law Institute, the former Board Chair of the Colorado Legal Aid Foundation, and a board member of the Heyburn Initiative for Excellence in the Federal Judiciary. Eric graduated from Michigan Law School and Oberlin College.
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