Of Counsel
CurrentStephen Oleskey is Of Counsel in the firm’s Commercial Litigation practice area and a member of the Real Property Tax & Condemnation practice area. Stephen has 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. He has lectured and spoken on these topics. Stephen has 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 representations have included The Gale Companies, Stockbridge Real Estate Fund,Lowe's, Equity Office Properties, New England Life Insurance, Gerald D. Hines Interests, Sears Roebuck, Silverleaf Resorts, Wal-Mart, and Suez North America. I am continuing to take on complex civil litigation including partnership and LLC matters, general corporate disputes, mediation and arbitration, with particularly extensive experience in real estate related disputes, including zoning, licensing and Planning Board disputes; time share disputes; and, real estate tax abatement appeals. I celebrated the beginning of my third year with Barclay Damon on February 1, 2015.