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Karl Olson
Cannata, O'Toole, Fickes & Almazan, LLPBadges
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Practice Areas
- Products Liability
- Trademarks
- Real Estate Law
- Environmental Law
Additional Practice Areas
- Consumer class actions
- Media/First Amendment
Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice
- California
- 9th Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Central District of California
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
Languages
- English: Spoken, Written
Professional Experience
- Partner
- Cannata, O'Toole, Fickes & Almazan, LLP
- Current
Education
- University of California - Hastings College of the Law
- J.D. | Law
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- Honors: Graduated magna cum laude. Member, Thurston Society and Order of the Coif. Articles editor, Hastings Law Journal.
- Activities: Served as extern for California Supreme Court Justice Stanley Mosk in spring of 1982.
- California State University - Sonoma State University
- B.A. | English
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- Activities: Founded and edited college newspaper, the Sonoma State Morning Glory. Worked on several newspapers during college.
Awards
- Freedom of Information Award
- California Newspaper Publishers Association
- America's Leading Business Lawyers - Media & Entertainment Litigation
- Chambers USA
- 2004, 2005. 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009
- James Madison Award for legal counsel
- Northern California Society of Professional Journalists
- Won James Madison Award given annually to one legal counsel by Northern California Society of Professional Journalists in 2005
- Northern California SuperLawyer - Media/First Amendment
- San Francisco Magazine
Professional Associations
- San Francisco Bar Association
- Member, Bench-Bar-Media Committee
- Current
- ABA Forum on Communications Law
- Past Member, Governing Committee
- Current
- California State Bar # 104760
- Member
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