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Jules B. Olsman is a practicing attorney in Berkley, Michigan. He is President of the law firm of Olsman, Mueller, Wallace & MacKenzie, P.C. and has lectured throughout the country on issues related to the abuse of patients in nursing homes and the assertion of healthcare liens by Medicare and Medicaid. He has been interviewed on both local and national new programs on a variety of legal issues, including prevention of elder abuse. As an author, he has contributed to numberous books, articles and newsletters pertaining to personal injury laws and routinely blogs on the subject of the protection of seniors. He has served as counsel for individuals in numerous states including Michigan, Florida, Tennessee, Arizona, Ohio, Indiana, Maine, Minnesota and South Carolina. He also currently serves as a City Commissioner for the City of Huntington Woods, Michigan, and as an adjunct professor for the Michigan State University School of Law.

Career
Olsman and his firm were associated counsel in the Agent Orange litigation which involved toxic exposure by Vietnam veterans to the defoliant Agent Orange which was manufactured by American chemical companies and used to clear out jungle during the Vietnam war.

In 2004, Olsman served as the plaintiff's attorney in the case of Bryant vs Oakpointe Villa, a Michigan Supreme Court case in which the court found that the family of a woman who died as a result of alleged abuse at a nursing home was not required to file the case under the state's onerous medical malpractice rules provided that it could prove that the injuries arose out of ordinary negligence, as opposed to arising out of the excercise of medical judgment.

In 2008, Olsman represented the plaintiff in the Michigan Supreme Court case of Ross v Auto Club Group, which was a victory for small business owners who become unable to work as a result of car accidents in Michigan. Prior to the court's holding in Ross, Michigan insurance companies had routinely refused to pay wage loss to the sole owners of small corporations if the corporation had posted a loss the year before the accident, even if the owner had received wages from the corporation up to the time of the car accident. The Court held that the corporation's losses did not equate with the owner's income as he had been paid wages by the company and had been issued an IRS W-2 form by the corporation.

Olsman was the President of the Michigan Trial Lawyers Association (now referred to as the Michigan Association for Justice) for the 2000-2001 term. From 2001 to 2006, he served as a member of the Board of Governors of the American Association for Justice and was a founding member of the organization's Nursing Home Litigation Group. He was the Chair of the Negligence Section Council of the State Bar of Michigan for the 2008/2009 term, as well as a member of the State Bar's Civil Procedure Committee. He also serves on the Oakland County Bar Association Board of Directors.

On November 3, 2009, Olsman was elected to a four-year term on the Huntington Woods City Commission.

Olsman serves as legislative counsel and a member of the executive board of Citizens for Better Care, one of the oldest nursing home advocacy groups in the country.

He was appointed by Governor Jennifer Granholm to serve on the Governor's Task Force on Elder Abuse, which issued its final report to the Governor on August 23, 2006.

In the fall of 2010, Olsman began teaching the Medical Malpractice Litigation course at the Michigan State University School of Law as an adjunct professor.

In October 2010, Olsman was appointed by the Michigan Supreme Court to a three year term on the State Bar of Michigan's Board of Commissioners.

Olsman has contributed to multiple books published by the Institute of Continuing Legal Education (ICLE) including Torts: Michigan Law and Practice, 1st Edition (no longer in print) and Michigan Causes Of Action Formbook as well as numerous other legal publications. He previously edited Liens in the Michigan Personal Injury Case and has written extensively on Medicare and other health care liens and their impact on personal injury cases.

Over the years, Olsman has appeared on radio and television in interviews conducted by local and national news organizations on assorted legal topics. In November 2006, he appeared on the CBS Evening News for its story, "Aging In The Shadows" which addressed the rise in injuries caused by negligence at assisted living facilities throughout the country.

Personal
Olsman grew up in northwest Detroit. Prior to going to law school, he taught high school English in the Detroit Public Schools. He is a 1975 graduate of Wayne State University and the Detroit College of Law in 1978.