Sparacino
WASHINGTON, DC
1920 L Street, NW
Suite 835
Washington, DC 20036
Tel. (202) 629-3530
(202) 629-9740
1920 L Street, NW
Suite 835
Washington, DC 20036
Tel. (202) 629-3530
(202) 629-9740
150 South Wacker Drive
Suite 2400
Chicago, IL 60606
Tel. (312) 216-5111
Eli J. Kay-Oliphant has litigated the most complex of issues for almost two decades. He has represented defendants and plaintiffs in state and federal courts throughout the country, as well as in arbitrations and mediations.
Mr. Kay-Oliphant’s practice focuses on complicated and “bet the company” contractual matters, commercial fraud, and other business torts. He has extensive experience with mass actions and has litigated class actions in both state and federal court. He has worked on matters related to the financial services, aviation, energy, health care and pharmaceuticals, online technology, and media industries. He has litigated regarding airline preemption, partnership and member disputes, business torts, sophisticated financial products such as credit default swaps, Ponzi schemes, and residential mortgage-backed securities, antitrust, false and misleading media stories, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, online financial products and transactions, social media, complex software and technology, the Federal Anti-Terrorism Act, real estate, and data privacy and security matters.
Mr. Kay-Oliphant has a wide array of experience in the state and federal courts in Illinois, as well as in the federal courts in New York and Washington, D.C. He has handled all phases of litigation, from pre-complaint negotiations, drafting, defending, and attacking complaints at the pleading stage, managing and litigating discovery, attacking and defending experts, summary judgment, settlement negotiations, and all the way through bench or jury trial. He has appellate experience before the Illinois Court of Appeals and the Illinois Supreme Court as well as in Federal Courts of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court, and recently won appeals before both the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the Illinois Court of Appeals. Mr. Kay-Oliphant also has extensive experience in arbitrations before both JAMS and AAA.
Before joining Sparacino PLLC, Mr. Kay-Oliphant was a partner at Massey & Gail LLP, an associate at the international law firms Latham & Watkins in New York City and O’Melveny & Myers in Washington, D.C., and a clerk for the Honorable W. Eugene Davis of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. In law school, Mr. Kay-Oliphant was the Editor-in-Chief of the Emory Law Journal.
Mr. Kay-Oliphant’s representations include:
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Emory University School of Law, with Honors (J.D. 2005)
Editor-in-Chief of the Emory Law Journal; William Agnor Scholar
Northwestern University (B.S. 2001)
Hardy Debate Scholar and member of the Northwestern Debate Society
State of Illinois (active)
State of New York (active)
Washington, D.C. (active)
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
United States District Court for the District of Columbia
United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
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