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Stephen Oleskey is Of Counsel in the Barclay Damon, LLP Commercial Litigation practice area, and a member of the Real Property Tax & Condemnation practice area. I have represented a wide range of corporations, partnerships, joint ventures, individuals and government entities, in civil jury and jury-waived trials, arbitrations and mediations in Massachusetts state and federal courts and in many other jurisdictions. I have lectured and spoken on these topics. I have argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the Massachusetts Appeals Court, the New Hampshire Supreme Court, the Maine Supreme Court, the U.S. Tax Court, the U.S. Court of Claims, and the District of Columbia, First, Third and Ninth Circuit U.S. Courts of Appeals. Significant litigation representation has included The Gale Companies, Stockbridge Real Estate Fund, Mondev International, Equity Office Properties,Lowe's Home Stores, New England Life, Gerald D. Hines Interests, Sears Roebuck, and Suez North America. From 1968 to 1987, and from 1988 to December 31, 2012, I practiced at WilmerHale (formerly Hale & Dorr) where I was a Senior Partner and a Past Chair of the Hale & Dorr Executive Committee. I served as Massachusetts Deputy Attorney General and Chief of the Public Protection Bureau in 1987 and 1988. In that post, I supervised 140 attorneys, investigators, paralegals and support personnel in the Antitrust, Civil Rights, Consumer Protection, Environmental Protection, Insurance, Public Charities, Utilities, Nuclear Safety and Special Litigation Divisions. I was responsible for all civil litigation and enforcement proceedings.From 2004 to December 2012 I co-led the WilmerHale Legal Team litigating the case of Boumediene v. Bush. In that case, the U.S.Supreme Court held in 2008 that Guantanamo detainees were entitled to seek Habeas Corpus relief in Federal Court. This led to the first GTMO habeas trial in November 2008.

Listed skills include Commercial Litigation, Civil Litigation, Appeals, Legal Writing, and 12 others.