McKinney, Wainwright & Saul-Olson - Attorney Profiles

Randi Saul-Olson
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Education:
University of California at Santa Barbara, B.A., Philosophy, 1979, Loyola Law School, J.D., 1983

Practice Areas:
Personal Injury; Professional Liability; Torts; Aged and Aging; Civil Rights; Insurance

Membership:
State Bar of California (Board Member, Conference of Delegates, 2001-); Tulare County Trial Lawyers Association (President, 1989-1990); Tulare County Women Lawyers Association.

Admissions:
1983, California, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California and U.S. Supreme Court

Biography:

Randi Saul-Olson has focused her law practice on Personal Injury; Professional Liability; Torts; Aged and Aging as well as Civil Rights and Insurance, for more than two decades.

After earning her J.D. from the Loyola Law School in 1983, Ms. Saul-Olson was admitted to the California Bar and the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California. She is also admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Her professional memberships include the State Bar Judicial Nominees Evaluation Commission from 1998 to 2001. When this term ended, Ms. Saul-Olson was invited to become one of the founding board members of the Conference of Delegates of California Bar Associations (formerly Executive Committee of the State Bar Conference of Delegates) and served from 2001 to 2004. Ms. Saul-Olson is a member of the Board of Directors, Central California Trial Lawyers’ Association. She is past President of Tulare County Trial Lawyers, and has served on the Board of Directors of the Tulare County Bar Association. She is a member of various specialty bar associations, such as Consumer Attorneys of California, Association of Trial Lawyers of America and sections of the American Bar Association. Ms. Saul-Olson served two terms as vice president of the California Young Lawyers Association (CYLA). During her tenure she founded and directed Seniors’ Law Day, a statewide program providing free legal services to the elderly. Ms. Saul-Olson coordinated Tulare County’s program for more than ten years.

Ms. Saul-Olson has served as a private and court-appointed arbitrator, mediator and Judge Pro Tem. She is a certified arbitrator for the Better Business Bureau. Active in local civic affairs, she helped to establish and now serves as President of Congregation Beit Shalom, Visalia. Ms. Saul-Olson has served several terms on the Editorial Board of the Visalia Times-Delta, presided over local and statewide student Mock Trials, acts as mentor for individual students, speaks to high school classes and has taught in the paralegal program at College of the Sequoias. She has presented seminars at business, professional and State Bar events. Ms. Saul-Olson is a member of the Juvenile Justice Commission and the Tulare County Library Foundation. She is involved in local theatre and enjoys acting.

In recognition of the success of Senior's Law Day, Ms. Saul-Olson received the American Bar Endowment National Pro Bono Achievement Award and was brought to Dallas to teach the project to American Bar Association Young Lawyer Division members the following year. She was the first recipient of the Tulare County Bar Association Pro Bono Service Award and first recipient of the Special [CYLA] Board of Directors' Award of Achievement. In 1992 she received the Constitutional Rights Foundation Commendation and was honored with recognition as the first "Woman of Achievement" by Visalia Business and Professional Women. In addition to serving on various charitable Boards of Directors, Ms. Saul-Olson was invited to, and became, the first female member of any previously all-male service club in Tulare County, joining Rotary in 1987.