Jeff Scott Olson Law Firm, SC

Madison, United States

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Specialties

We are a plaintiff’s civil rights and personal injury law firm. We represent individuals and small businesses in litigation against corporations and government agencies. We litigate freedom-​of-​speech cases under the First Amendment, and police misconduct cases under the Fourth Amendment. We handle prisoner rights cases under the Eighth Amendment, and represent public employees under the Fourteenth Amendment. We represent the victims of unlawful discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations, and we recover damages for the injured.

History

Established in 1994.

Jeff Scott Olson started his solo practice in 1994 and established The Jeff Scott Olson Law Firm in its present location in 2000.

Meet the Business Owner

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Business Owner

Jeff Scott Olson was born in Augusta, Wisconsin, a small farming community. He came to Madison to attend the University of Wisconsin, graduated with honors in 1972, and obtained his law degree in 1976. In over twenty years of private practice, he has almost always represented individuals or small businesses against government agencies, corporations and insurance companies.

Over the years, he has won a number of landmark cases, including Watkins v. LIRC, which established the right of an employment discrimination victim to recover a separate award of attorneys’ fees under the Wisconsin Fair Employment Act, and Gilbert v. State of Wisconsin Medical Examining Board, which established due process safeguards applicable to professional license revocation cases.

Jeff Olson has earned the respect of other trial lawyers and the trust of his clients. A nationally-​recognized expert on civil rights law, he has been asked on nearly fifty occasions to present educational programs for the training