ALYSON OLIVER
Attorney in Troy, Michigan, Serving Clients Nationwide
Legal Excellence & Professionalism
With a multi-faceted career spanning over 20 years, Alyson Oliver’s experience as a lawyer and managing partner of the Oliver Law Group P.C. has provided a solid foundation for handling intricate litigation. Oliver has thrived over the years on challenging courtroom battles and victories. As a dynamic lawyer, she is a diligent advocate for her clients. Oliver is skilled in all phases of litigation from the preparation and discovery phases through negotiations, hearings, and trials. Oliver has an innate ability to identify and digest legal issues and explain them to clients and juries in non-legal jargon that allows for ease of understanding. Oliver has represented companies, classes, individuals, and the community at large, often in complex matters. Oliver is well suited to handle with experience, effectiveness, and efficiency the legal needs of clients, including in matters such as:
Dispute Resolution
Employment Litigation and Compliance
Antitrust and Competitive Concerns
Education
J.D. - University of Detroit Mercy, 1998
B.A. - Oakland University, 1994
Bar Admissions
Michigan, May 12, 1999
United States Court of Appeals
Sixth Circuit
United States District Court of Illinois
Central District and Southern District
United States District Court of Indiana
Northern District
United States District Court of Michigan
Eastern District and Western District
United States District Court of New York
Northern District
United States District Court of Ohio
Northern District
United States District Court of Texas
Southern District
United States District Court of Wisconsin
Eastern District
United States Federal Court of Claims
Professional Associations
American Association for Justice
Oakland County Bar Association
State Bar of Michigan
U.S. District Court Pro Bono Committee
Consumer Law Division, State Bar of Michigan
Federal Bar Association
Public Justice
American Trial Lawyers Association
Special Appointments and Recognition
4/15/2003| Pro Bono Recognition from Chief Judge Lawrence P. Zatkoff of the United States District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
9/23/2008 - 2015| Pro Bono Recognition from Chief Judge Bernard Friedman of the United States District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
Named as a Top 100 Trial Attorney in America’s Trial Lawyers Association; 2008-2019
Named SuperLawyer; 2013-2019
Named to Michigan State Bar’s Consumer Protection Committee 2019
Recently appointed to the Philips Cpap MDL leadership role for the attorney fee/expense committee. Click here to read more.
Nationwide Networking, Lectures, Publications
Oliver understands and functions well in the business and litigation landscape. She has engaged in dozens of conferences, council meetings, and symposiums involving hundreds of law firms in venues across the country that are designed to facilitate consensus, consider organizational structures and promote coordinated litigation efforts.
Oliver lectured at the national HarrisMartin Nexgen Zimmer Knee Litigation Conference in San Francisco regarding the Zimmer Nexgen litigation strategy. Oliver presented at the Transvaginal Mesh conference in Savannah, Georgia in November 2011. In September 2012, Oliver had a role in presenting regarding the Daubert considerations as it refers to metal-on-metal hip litigation in New York.
In the March 2014 edition of Trial Magazine, Oliver was published on the issue of the Importance of Diversity of Leadership in Litigation.
National Press Coverage.
Oliver has been involved in numerous cases that have sparked national and international interest. She has been interviewed and featured in print, online, on television and radio regarding her expertise and involvement with some of the nation’s most interesting litigation. As a result, Oliver has been called upon and often quoted by leaders in with Fox 2 News Detroit, Daily Fox News, Channel 95.5 Detroit, Spin 1038 Radio in Dublin, Ireland, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Observer, Digital Spy, Yahoo! News, Entertainment Weekly, Business Wire, Rolling Stone, NBC, Channel 95.5 Detroit, My Fox Phoenix, Huffington Post, Reuters, ABC News, TV Guide, Billboard, Washington Post, Detroit Legal News, WXYZ Channel 7 Detroit, Lawyers USA, Washington Post, NY Times, Crains, Salon, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg News, NPR Radio, Law360, Rolling Stone and the National Law Journal.
Curriculum Vitae Highlights.
Ten years of progressive trial experience in the primary practice of criminal law that provided enormous trial exposure, prior to electing to move into civil litigation, product liability litigation, and ultimately complex litigation.
Presenter of oral argument at Judicial Panel of Multi-District Litigation (JPML) in efforts to consolidate national litigations in MDL proceedings in Imprelis litigation and Transvaginal Mesh litigation.
Appointed to leadership positions in:
In re Valsartan Product Liability Litigation Multi-District Litigation
§United States District Court for New Jersey
§Appointed to Steering Committee
§MDL 2875
In re Packaged Seafood Class Action Antitrust Multi-District Litigation
§ United States District Court for the District of Southern California
§Case No. 3:15-cv-02169
§Appointed to Executive Committee
In re MI Windows & Doors Litigation Defective Construction Class Action Product Liability Multi-District Litigation
§ United States District Court for the District of South Carolina
§ MDL No. 2333
§ Appointed to Steering Committee
In re American Medical Systems, Inc. Pelvic Repair System Product Liability Multi-District Litigation
§ United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia
§ MDL No. 2325
§ Appointed to Steering Committee
In re Boston Scientific Corp. Pelvic Repair System Product Liability Multi
District Litigation
§ United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia
§ Case No. 2:12-md-02326; MDL No. 2326
§ Appointed to Steering Committee
In re Coloplast Corp. Pelvic Support Systems Product Liability Multi-District
Litigation
§ United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia
§ MDL No. 2387
§ Appointed to Steering Committee
In re Cook Medical Inc. Pelvic Repair Systems Product Liability Multi-District
Litigation
§ United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia
§ MDL No. 2440
§ Appointed Steering Committee
In re C.R. Bard, Inc. Pelvic Repair Systems Product Liability Multi-District
Litigation
§ United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia
§ MDL No. 2187
§ Appointed to Steering Committee
In re Ethicon Inc. Pelvic Repair Systems Product Liability Multi-District
Litigation
§ United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia
§ MDL No. 2327
§ Appointed to Steering Committee
In re Zimmer NexGen Knee Implant Product Liability Multi-District Litigation
§ United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
§ MDL No. 2272
§ Appointed to Steering Committee
In re Aluminum Antitrust Class Action Multi-District Litigation
§ United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
§ MDL No. 2481
§ Appointed to Steering Committee
Jackson, et al v. Mastronardi Produce Limited, et al Wage/Hour Class Action
Litigation
§ United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
§ Case No. 2:11-cv-11525
§ Appointed Co-Lead Counsel
Does II v. Snyder, Constitutional Class Action Litigation
§ United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
§ Case No. 2:16-cv-13137
§ Appointed Co-Lead Counsel
To learn more about Attorney Oliver, call Oliver Law Group P.C. or contact us online.