Olshan represents major businesses and entrepreneurs for their most significant transactions, problems and opportunities. Olshan’s clients range from public companies, hedge, venture capital, private equity and other investment funds to entrepreneurs and private companies worldwide. Clients choose Olshan for innovative strategies and sophisticated, game-changing advice in corporate, securities law and shareholder activism, complex commercial, corporate and securities litigation, bankruptcy and creditors’ rights, real estate, intellectual property and advertising. Since its founding over 50 years ago, Olshan has offered an alternative to the AmLaw 50 law firm business model with responsive, independent and client-focused legal counsel provided by the firm’s senior lawyers.
Total number of practice groups: 14
- Advertising, Marketing & Promotions
- Bankruptcy & Financial Restructuring
- Brand Management and Protection
- Corporate/Securities Law
- Employee Benefits
- Employment Practices
- Insurance Coverage Law
- Intellectual Property Law
- International Law
- Litigation
- Real Estate Law
- Shareholder Activism Practice
- Tax & Personal Planning
- White Collar & Government Investigations
Recognitions
Olshan has been consistently recognized as one of the premier mid-sized law firms in the country, including:
- Ranked by Chambers USA as a premier law firm for Corporate/M&A Shareholder Activism (Top Tier 1), as well as Litigation: General Commercial and Real Estate: Mainly Dirt, with eight Olshan lawyers, including four lawyers in the Shareholder Activism practice, named as Leading Lawyers
- Recognized by The Legal 500 U.S. as a Leading Law Firm in Shareholder Activism (Tier 1) with five Olshan lawyers ranked, and in Advertising with three Olshan lawyers ranked
- Selection of eight of the firm's lawyers as The Best Lawyers in America® along with the selection of three lawyers to Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America®
- Ranked nationally and regionally by Best Law Firms® for Securities/Capital Markets, Real Estate Law, Advertising Law, Trusts & Estates Law, Commercial Litigation, Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law and Copyright Law
- Selection of 36 lawyers to the New York Metro Super Lawyers list, a Thomson Reuters lawyer rating service
- Honored by The National Law Journal twice as a top 20 midsize law firm in its "Midsize Hot List"
- Inclusion in the National Law Journal "NLJ 500" list
Where We Recruit
During the recruiting season, we visit the following schools/job fair:
- Brooklyn Law School
- Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
- Fordham University School of Law
- NEBLSA (North East Black Law Students Association) Job Fair
- New York University School of Law
- Rutgers University School of Law-Newark
While we expect to visit these law schools, our full-time attorneys come from many different law schools and we encourage applicants from schools that we may not visit.
All resumes should be accompanied with law school transcripts and forwarded to Heather Rutner, Director of Administration.
Recruiting Contacts
For all recruiting inquiries, please contact:
Heather W. Rutner
Director of Administration
hrutner@olshanlaw.com