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About Stephen Ollar
Trial attorney Stephen Ollar is committed to providing clients with the best representation possible. Named a Rising Star by Super Lawyers every year from 2020 to 2025, he focuses on auto accidents, medical malpractice, and general tort claims. Before joining the firm, Stephen clerked for Chief Judge Eric T. Washington of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, sharpening his research and writing abilities and deepening his knowledge of civil and criminal procedure. He also interned with the Public Defender Service of the District of Columbia, the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, the Department of Justice's Commercial Litigation Branch, and an independent criminal defense attorney.
Stephen earned his J.D. from American University Washington College of Law in 2016, graduating magna cum laude, and won the 2015 Peter James Johnson National Civil Rights Trial Competition. Prior to law school, he earned a B.A. in Economics and a B.S. in Cell and Molecular Biology from the University of Texas at Austin, and served honorably as a Staff Sergeant in the United States Army for six years, deploying twice to Iraq and Afghanistan as an airborne infantryman. He currently serves on the Board of Governors for the Trial Lawyers Association of Washington, D.C.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Chaikin, Sherman, Cammarata & Siegel, P.C.
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A DC Superior Court jury awarded $17.1 million to the three children of Tiffaney Dunbar, 33, who died in February 2017 after a nurse practitioner at MedStar Washington Hospital Center's Women's Wellness Clinic failed to diagnose and disclose an ectopic pregnancy.
Chaikin, Sherman, Cammarata & Siegel filed the original class action and served as co-counsel alongside lead counsel Sanford Heisler in a $14.25 million settlement for women secretly recorded by a Washington, DC rabbi at a Jewish ritual bath over nearly a decade.
Joseph Cammarata secured a $4.5 million jury verdict for Sherry Galloway, a pedestrian dragged under a DASH bus in August 2014 by a driver Alexandria Transit Company kept behind the wheel despite four prior preventable accidents.
A 59-year-old woman went in for elective lumbar surgery to relieve chronic back pain and came out severely brain-damaged after her iliac artery was severed; an Arlington County jury awarded $35,620,902, the second-highest Virginia medical malpractice verdict that year, before the state cap cut the judgment to $2.2 million.
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