Kurt Oldenburg represents clients in complex commercial litigation, pre-litigation disputes, and white collar investigations. Kurt has litigated extensively in California and federal courts, most often representing clients in the technology, life sciences, and financial services sectors. Kurt also represents companies and individuals through high-stakes internal investigations and related proceedings before the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Kurt devotes time to pro bono legal aid and he formerly worked for a non-profit dedicated to increasing access to justice among Californians.
Kurt has experience in all phases of civil litigation including fact and expert discovery, motion practice, oral argument, mediation, trial preparation, and appeals. He has litigated disputes involving breach of contract, products liability, employee and consumer class actions, federal securities law, and various business torts. Kurt has also overseen physical and electronic data retention, collection, and production in numerous matters. He has interviewed witnesses and collected evidence in Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the Middle East.
Kurt also maintains an active white collar practice, representing individuals and companies during internal investigations and proceedings before the DOJ and SEC. His work in this area has involved the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), antitrust laws, trade sanctions, and mail and wire fraud.
Kurt also dedicates significant time to pro bono legal assistance. He currently represents an Eritrean refugee who fled ethnic and religious persecution by a regime tied with North Korea as the third-worst human rights offender in the world. Kurt and other Morgan Lewis attorneys secured a preliminary injunction staying the client’s removal to Eritrea while he pursues asylum in our immigration courts, Sied v. Nielsen, 2018 WL 1142202 (N.D. Cal. Mar. 2, 2018). Kurt was also honored by Legal Services for Children for his pro bono defense of expulsion proceedings against a student in the San Francisco Unified School District. He also contributed to an appeal to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals seeking habeas relief for the state’s longest-serving death row inmate, and obtained U-Visa residency status for a Bay Area victim of domestic violence. Prior to law school, Kurt worked with a San Francisco non-profit organization dedicated to increasing access to justice among Californians by connecting and mobilizing stakeholders in legal services, courts, bar associations, law schools, and law firms.
Kurt received his J.D. from the UC Davis School of Law, where he graduated in the Order of the Coif. Kurt sat on the UC Davis Moot Court Board, was a National Finalist at the American College of Trial Lawyers’ National Moot Court Competition, and earned the Moses Lasky Antitrust Award and several Witkin Awards for Academic Excellence.
National Finalist, 2012 American College of Trial Lawyers Moot Court Competition
Finalist, 2011 UC Davis School of Law Moot Court Competition
Recipient, Witkin Awards for Academic Excellence in Antitrust, Corporate and White Collar Crime, Federal Jurisdiction, Legal History, and Real Property
Recipient, Moses Lasky Antitrust Award
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