Sean Olson
Founder | Olson Personal Injury Lawyers
Sean Olson is a personal injury, medical malpractice and nursing home abuse trial lawyer and founder of Olson Personal Injury Lawyers in Golden, Colorado. J.D., University of Denver Sturm College of Law (2006).
Meet Sean
Being a personal injury lawyer gives me the opportunity to tell stories in the same way that I did when I worked behind the camera.
Sean Olson is the founder of Olson Personal Injury Lawyers, a firm serving injured people in Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming, with an office in Golden, Colorado. His practice centers on personal injury, medical malpractice and nursing home abuse cases.
Before law school, Olson worked as a photojournalist and won an Emmy award. He grew up in a farming town in Wisconsin, earned a journalism and mass communication degree from Drake University in 1995 and received his law degree in 2006 from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, graduating in the top 1% of his class. He has returned to the school as an adjunct professor teaching trial advocacy. He is admitted in Colorado and Wyoming, both since 2006, and in New Mexico since 2024, along with federal courts in Colorado and Wyoming and the Tenth Circuit.
Results listed on his bio include $9 million in a wrongful death case, $4.5 million for a client hurt by a drunk driver and $1.6 million in a medical malpractice case. Super Lawyers has recognized him every year since 2012, and he wrote the book “Results Matter” about the personal injury process. He lives in the Colorado foothills with his wife and two children.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- J.D., University of Denver Sturm College of Law, 2006
- B.A., Journalism and Mass Communication, Drake University, 1995
- Colorado bar, 2006
- Wyoming bar, 2006
- New Mexico bar, 2024
- U.S. District Court, District of Colorado, 2006
- U.S. District Court, District of Wyoming, 2006
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, 2006
Practice Areas
- Super Lawyers, Personal Injury (since 2012)
- $9 Million Recovery: Wrongful death case for a client whose father was run over and killed while helping a motorist at a gas station in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
- $4.5 Million Recovery: For a client left with permanent, debilitating injuries in a drunk-driving crash in Denver, Colorado.
- $2 Million Recovery: For a client's child who was severely injured after being ejected from a car sideswiped by a commercial truck in Denver, Colorado.
- $1.6 Million Recovery: Medical malpractice case for a client who suffered a spinal cord injury after a doctor stopped life-saving medication in Denver, Colorado.
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