Attorneys:

William A. Olson

Attorney William Olson

William A. Olson joined Aiken, St. Louis & Siljeg, P.S., in 1980. He has worked continuously for Aiken, St. Louis & Siljeg for the past 31 years. Bill has served as President of the law firm. He has been a shareholder since 1985 and he is its second most senior member. Bill's practice emphasizes civil litigation including commercial/contract disputes, insurance law, trust and estate disputes, real estate disputes, condominium and homeowners' association law, landlord/tenant law, environmental law and appellate practice. Bill is experienced in dispute resolution working on multiple occasions with multiple parties in settlement negotiations to resolve costly and time-consuming litigation in high-value cases. Bill has been appointed on many occasions by the King County Superior Court to serve as an arbitrator in civil cases subject to mandatory arbitration.

During his career, Bill has provided legal representation in some of the major litigation in the State of Washington including the litigation in the early 1980s between the State of Washington and Marine Power & Equipment Co., Inc., over the Issaquah Class ferries; litigation in the late 1980s between the FSLIC and Queen City Savings & Loan over the failures of the savings and loan business and litigation throughout the 1990s on behalf of insurance companies regarding insurance coverage issues related to environmental clean-up claims. Bill has published in the Washington Defense Trial Lawyers publication "Defense News" on the Frye Doctrine as Applied to the Fibromyalgia Syndrome based on his work in Grant v. Boccia, 133 Wn. App. 176, 137 P.3d 20 (2006) and other like cases in the superior courts. His work is reported in several cases.

Bill was admitted to practice in 1979 in the State of Washington. He also has been admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the Western and Eastern Districts of Washington, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the United States Supreme Court.

Profile
  • Position with Firm:
  • President
  • Started with Firm:
  • 1980
  • General Areas of Practice:
  • Civil litigation including commercial/contract disputes
    Insurance law
    Trust and estate disputes
    Real estate disputes
    Condominium and homeowners' association law
    Landlord/tenant law
    Environmental law and appellate practice
  • Law School:
  • University of Puget Sound Law School (J.D. 1979, Cum Laude); Served as the Research and Technical Editor for the UPS Law Review in 1978-1979.
  • Undergraduate School:
  • University of Washington (B.A. 1972, Business Administration)
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