Glen F. Olives Esq.

Glen Olives has had a distinguished legal career spanning many practice areas over 25 years, including work at the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, major California law firms, and as professor of law where he taught U.S. and Canadian law to foreign law students. He has first-chaired many jury trials to verdict, and has conducted hundreds of bench trials and binding arbitrations. The last five years his practice has exclusively focused on defending both dealerships and manufacturers against consumer claims such as California’s Consumer Legal Remedies Act and Song-Beverly Act.  In addition to extensive law and motion practice involving a wide variety of issues relevant to manufacturers and dealers, Glen has appellate experience at the state and federal level, resulting in several published and unpublished opinions.

Representative Accomplishments

• Published appellate opinions include 347 Group v. Hawkins (2020) 58 Cal.App.5th 209 where the trial court was reversed and the case remanded to determine defendant’s reasonable attorney fees.
• In a landmark published opinion, defeated a summary judgment motion on a question of first impression in federal court regarding statutory interpretation of HBOR claims.
• Defended two consumer arbitrations where the consumers took nothing and Respondents were awarded attorney fees: a franchise dealer was awarded attorney fees under Civil Code § 1780(e), and a finance company was awarded breach of contract damages for a deficiency balance as well as reasonable attorney fees.
• Success rate of nearly 100 percent on motions to compel arbitration.
• Won multiple dispositive motions in state courts, federal courts, and in arbitration, including various dismissals of Song-Beverly claims against franchise dealers.
• Published legal research in five peer-reviewed academic journals.

Bar Admissions

Glen is licensed to practice in California.

Glen is also licensed to practice in the following United States District Courts:

• Central District of California
• Eastern District of California
• Northern District of California

Memberships

• American Bar Association
• National Association of Dealership Counsel
• Association of Trial Lawyers of America

Background/Education

After serving in the US Army’s Berlin Brigade during the fall of the Berlin Wall, Glen attended California State University, Chico, where he graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in social science and was inducted into the Phi Kappa Phi academic honor society. He then attended Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles under the accelerated two-year SCALE program and took his JD in 1998. There, he was awarded the “Excellence for the Future” award in Evidence and Trial Advocacy. At La Salle University’s Chihuahua Campus, Glen taught many subjects, including legal research and writing, torts, civil procedure, contracts, and constitutional law, among others. For excellence in teaching and research, he was awarded the “Hno. Rodriguez de Alba Award” in 2018. He resides in northern California with his two children and rescue pit bull mix “Coach Roger.”