Elliot Olen – Fairless Hills Business Lawyer

Bar Admissions

• Pennsylvania Supreme Court, 1978
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1980
• U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit, 1981

Education

• American University, Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C. , J.D. 1978
• University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: B.A. – International Relations Joint Wharton (Economics) & CAS (US/Russian and Soviet) Program – 1978 – Cum Laude/with Distinction

Classes/Seminars

Presented & prepared materials for several Pa. credit granting Continuing Legal Education programs including:

• Commercial Real Estate Leases – Bucks County Bar Association
• Probate Law– National Bar Institute
• Contracts A-Z – National Bar Institute

• Drafting Effective Wills and Trusts – National Business Institute
• Ethics & Estate Planning/Living Wills – National Business Institute
• Probate Litigation National Business Institute
• Personal Representative Challenges – National Business Institute

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Bucks County Emergency Rescue Services, Prior Director
• Oxford Crossing Condominium Association, Prior Director
• Bucks County Jewish Congregation, Prior Director
• Huntington Brook Community Association Prior Director
• Bucks County Bar Association Member
• Bucks County Bar Association Orphans Court Advisory Prior Panel Member
• Pennsylvania Bar Association Member
• Approved Attorney for All Service Abstract/Commonwealth Land Title
• American Arbitration Association Prior Panel Member

Prior/Concurrent Work Experience

• Law Clerk for former Bucks County, Pa. Judge Oscar Bortner
• General Outside Counsel – Sovereign Exploration Associates
• Olen Law Office – principal since 1982

Past specialized work experience services

• Liquidated all commercial accounts for dissolving accounting firm (with Bankruptcy Court approval)
• Liquidated all commercial accounts for asset divesting DME supplier company
• Handled lender interests in SBA auction

Typical Services

• Shareholder, member, partner, or other ownership composition establishment and guidance
• Breach of contract and statute disputes
• Deadlock in business operations or decisions/mismanagement and self-dealing disputes
• Breach of fiduciary duty disputes/mismanagement and self-dealing
• Proxies and business Powers of Attorney
• Asset Securitization
• Contract drafting
• Estate planning document drafting
• Handle all equity and monetary disputes

Estate Disputes – asset ownership, counsel fees, timing & method of RE sale
Est. of Seitz, BCCP, appeal to Pa. Superior & allocator by Supreme Court denied

Shareholder Rights
Roland Estate v. Roland Investments et al. — Phila. Common Pleas

Commercial Leases Juliano v. Frankford-Quaker Grocery Co. et al. – BCCP
Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Commercial case of the month

Injunction/TRO

• Right to arbitration barred – LeMunyon v. American Security Insurance Co. U.S. Third Circuit C.A. affirming U.S.D.C. E.D. Pa (Arbitration barred)
• Restrictive Covenant TRO denied– Neurological v. Graziano et al. – Montgomery Co. Common Pleas Mergers/ Injunction &TRO – Holloway et al. v. Sovereign Exploration Associates. Harris County, Texas District Court-admitted Pro Hac Vice (TRO denied)

Unjust Enrichment found Roland v. Bank of America USDC ED Pa.

Loans and Agency/Liability of Co-borrowers upheld  Donner Financial v. Auto Tags by Maverick – BCCP

Goettner v. Linden and Tumy no adverse possession and tacking – BCCP

Ventresca v. Hurley no voidable transfers –  Montgomery Co. Common Pleas