They have successfully pursued claims against established religious bodies including the Catholic Church,[13] Jehovah's Witnesses,[14][15] certain sects of Buddhists[16] and Hindus,[17] and ultra-Orthodox or Haredi Judaism,[18] and against a number of care homes and schools.
[21] In 2016, the firm settled a case brought against UCLA by two female graduate students after the university had allowed history professor Gabriel Piterberg, who they had accused of sexual harassment, to return to campus.
[5] AO Advocates, a sister firm which is now fully part of McAllister Olivarius, brought the UK's first successful civil case against the Jehovah's Witnesses, winning compensation for a woman who claimed the religion's elders failed to protect her from sex abuse carried out by a pedophile.
[23] In the first civil case of its kind to be brought in England and Wales, McAllister Olivarius won "landmark" damages for YouTube star Chrissy Chambers after her former partner uploaded revenge pornography videos of her to the internet.
"[32] The firm's founder, Dr. Ann Olivarius, was a plaintiff in Alexander v. Yale,[33] the first case to hold that universities had a legal duty to combat sexual harassment under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.