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Kristin Olson and Scott Brooksby recognized in The Best Lawyers in America©

Scott Brooksby is recognized in Best Lawyers in America for his commercial litigation and product liability litigation defense practices.

Kristin Olson is recognized in Best Lawyers in America for her commercial litigation practice.

Best Lawyers® compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. The current edition of The Best Lawyers in America© 2023 is based on more than 5.5 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers.

Best Lawyers is the oldest and most respected peer-review publication company in the legal profession.

Recognition by Best Lawyers is widely regarded by both clients and legal professionals as a significant honor, conferred on a lawyer by their peers. For more than four decades, Best Lawyers has earned the respect of the profession, the media and the public as the most reliable, unbiased source of legal referrals anywhere.

The Best Lawyers in America© lists of outstanding lawyers are compiled by conducting exhaustive peer review surveys in which tens of thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. If the votes for a lawyer are positive enough for recognition by Best Lawyers, that lawyer must maintain those votes in subsequent polls to remain in each edition. Lawyers are not permitted to pay any fee to participate in or be recognized by Best Lawyers.

Olson Brooksby selected as a Tier 1 “Best Law Firm” for Commercial Litigation in the Portland Metropolitan Area by US News

US News designates Olson Brooksby as a Tier 1 Commercial Litigation firm in the Portland Metropolitan Area.

Firms that are included in the 2023 “Best Law Firms” list are recognized for professional excellence with consistently impressive ratings from clients and peers.  Receiving a tier designation reflects the high level of respect a firm has earned among other leading lawyers and clients in the same communities and the same practice areas for their abilities, their professionalism and their integrity.

The first tier in each metropolitan area includes those firms that score within a certain percentage of the highest-scoring firms based on client surveys and peer review.

The Impact of Covid-19 on Aviation: The Economic, Social, Operational, and Litigation Fallout.

Scott Brooksby, the firm’s aviation litigation chair, travels the country giving speeches about the impact of Covid-19 on the airline industry.

Scott has produced a paper for those interested in information about the way Covid-19 has impacted aviation, including the economic, structural, social, and litigation impact of Covid-19 on the aviation industry.

You can download that paper here:

Scott Brooksby moderates American Bar Association panel on the impact of Covid on litigation at the National Institute on Aviation Litigation

On June 9, 2022, Scott Brooksby served as the moderator for a distinguished panel of diverse aviation professionals who discussed the impact of Covid-19 on aviation, and the economic, social, operational, and litigation fallout.   The 90 minute panel-discussion that Scott moderated was a segment of the American Bar Association International Aviation Litigation Institute held in Chicago.  Scott was also the lead author of the supporting paper for the panel.

Key issues discussed are aircrew and passenger class actions against airlines; impact of aircraft manufacturing; airport operations; numerous complex insurance issues; and providing aviation sector clients with Covid-19-related legal advice to challenge the changing local, state, national and international regulations.

for the fourth year in a row, olson brooksby is included in u.s. news and world report’s list of best law firms

Since 2019, Olson Brooksby has been included in U.S. News and World Report’s list of “Best Law Firms.”

In 2022, Olson Brooksby has the distinction of being selected by U.S. News for two separate practice areas in the Portland, Oregon regional law firm rankings: Commercial Litigation and Product Liability Litigation–Defendants.

For the second year in a row, Scott Brooksby has been selected by his peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers® and The Best Lawyers in America© in two separate practice areas: Commercial Litigation and Product Liability Litigation–Defendants.

Scott Brooksby has been recognized by Best Lawyers and The Best Lawyers in America since 2018 for his work in Product Liability Litigation–Defendants. Since 2021, Scott has been recognized for his work in two categories: 1) Product Liability Litigation–Defendants and 2) Commercial Litigation.

Kristin Olson has been selected by her peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers and The Best Lawyers in America since 2019 for her work in Commercial Litigation. This year, Kristin is recognized for her work in two categories: 1) Commercial Litigation and 2) Litigation–Insurance.

2021 was the first year that the litigation firm was recognized for its work in two separate practice area categories: Commercial Litigation and Product Liability Litigation–Defendants. Olson Brooksby is recognized as a Best Law Firm in those two categories again in 2022.

Law firms that are included in the 2022 “Best Law Firms” list are recognized for professional excellence with persistently impressive ratings from clients and peers. Receiving a tier designation reflects the high level of respect a firm has earned among other leading lawyers and clients in the same communities and the same practice areas for their abilities, their professionalism and their integrity.

kristin olson and scott brooksby recognized in The Best Lawyers in America© for 2022

Olson Brooksby PC is pleased to announce that Kristin Olson and Scott Brooksby have once again been selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America (2022).

Best Lawyers compiles its lists by conducting peer–review surveys to determine the consensus opinion of leading lawyers about the professional abilities of their colleagues within the same geographical region and legal practice area. 

Recognition by Best Lawyers is based entirely on peer review. Their methodology is designed to capture, as accurately as possible, the consensus opinion of leading lawyers about the professional abilities of their colleagues within the same geographical area and legal practice area.

After receiving more than 10,000,000 peer evaluations, Best Lawyers honored approximately 5% of practicing lawyers in the United States, exemplifying the work of the most elite and top-rated lawyers in the country.

Kristin Olson is listed in the practice areas of Commercial Litigation and Litigation-Insurance.

Scott Brooksby is listed in the practice areas of Commercial Litigation and Product Liability Litigation – Defendants

Scott Brooksby Selected as a 2019 Oregon Super Lawyer for Product Liability Defense


Scott Brooksby has been honored every year for his product liability defense practice since the Oregon Super Lawyers award’s inception in 2008. He was honored once again for the year 2019.

No more than 5% of the lawyers in Oregon are selected for this honor each year.

Super Lawyers selects attorneys using peer nominations and evaluations, combined with independent research. Each candidate is evaluated on 12 indicators of peer recognition and professional achievement:

  • Verdicts/Settlements
  • Transactions
  • Representative Clients
  • Experience
  • Honors/Awards
  • Special licenses/certifications
  • Position within the law firm
  • Bar and/or professional activity
  • Pro bono and community service
  • Scholarly lectures/writings
  • Education/employment background
  • Other outstanding achievements


What Can Be Done About Pilot Depression, Suicide, and Other Flight Crew Mental Health Issues?

Scott Brooksby recently co-authored the article, “What Can Be Done About Pilot Depression, Suicide, and Other Flight Crew Mental Health Issues?” in a newsletter published by the American Bar Association, Mass Torts Litigation Section on November 9, 2017.

Mental health problems are nearing epidemic levels in the
developed world. According to the Centers for Disease Control
(CDC), suicide is the tenth leading cause of death and claims over
43,000 lives per year. Not surprisingly, if it is an issue in the
mainstream, you can bet it is a problem in the cockpit. It is true
that pilot mental fitness-and its connection to human factors
analysis-has always been a critical aspect of aviation safety, but
recent events suggest it is becoming even more important to
examine ways to identify mental health problems that may affect
pilot performance and safety in the cockpit. As Jet Blue founder
and former chief executive officer David Neeleman suggested,
“nobody ever thought about having to protect the passengers from
the pilots.”

In truth, most pilots would readily acknowledge that while the use
of medications to help mitigate the effects of mental illnesses has
been a hot button issue in aviation for some time, actual
evaluation of mental and emotional fitness in connection with
medical certification and continuing monitoring for symptoms has
not been a priority for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) or
flight surgeons. In addition, the reliance on self-reporting by pilots
as part of the medical certification process, as well as the
confidentiality that protects doctors from disclosure, has created a
dangerous dynamic in the cockpit that can make it difficult for
aviation authorities and commercial carriers to vet and identify
these dangers before it is too late. Add to these factors, the
compelling incentive for pilots to hide mental health issues for fear
of losing their jobs and you have little chance of ever identifying
the problem, let alone getting pilots the help they need.

This article explores these pressing issues and whether it is realistic to think that merely asking a pilot during a flight physical how he or she feels, or how is the family, or whether any issues are troubling you, etc., will trigger a response that will reveal a mental deficiency.

Scott Brooksby recognized as a Super Lawyer for product liability litigation

Scott Brooksby has been recognized as an Oregon Super Lawyer for product liability defense litigation.

The objective of Super Lawyers’ patented multiphase selection process is to create a credible, comprehensive and diverse listing of outstanding attorneys that can be used as a resource for attorneys and consumers searching for legal counsel.

Super Lawyers selects attorneys via peer nominations and evaluations, which are combined with independent research. Each candidate is evaluated on 12 indicators of peer recognition and professional achievement. Selections are made on an annual, state-by-state basis. The objective is to create a credible, comprehensive and diverse listing of outstanding attorneys that can be used as a resource for attorneys and consumers searching for legal counsel.

The final published list represents no more than 5 percent of the lawyers in the state. The lists are published annually in state and regional editions of Super Lawyers Magazines and in inserts and special advertising sections in leading city and regional magazines and newspapers.

Scott Brooksby
Top Oregon product liability lawyer

Scott Brooksby Recognized by Best Lawyers in America©

Scott Brooksby has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America© for product liability litigation.

Best Lawyers® compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. The current edition of The Best Lawyers in America© 2018 is based on millions of detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers.

The methodology is designed to capture, as accurately as possible, the consensus opinion of leading lawyers about the professional abilities of their colleagues within the same geographical area and legal practice area.

Oregon product liability lawyer
Scott Brooksby, one of the Best Lawyers in America