California Workers Compensation Lawyers

Workers Compensation Law

19900 MacArthur Blvd., Suite 950, Irvine , 92612, United States

www.smdcomp.com

Workers Compensation Law

Irvine, CA 92612, USA

http://www.smdcomp.com/

Workers Compensation Law

3440 Hillcrest Ave, Suite 175, ANTIOCH, CA 94531-6376

Ms. Costis grew up in the Fresno area of the California central valley. She then attended and graduated from UC Davis with high honors, earning a BA in Economics and English Literature. Ms. Costis then received her Juris Doctorate from the UC Davis School of Law. She is a Certified Specialist in Workers' Compensation. For over 26 years Ms. Costis has been representing injured workers. Her compassion and tireless advocacy on behalf her clients are hallmarks of her law practice. She works diligently to ensure that her clients receive what they are rightfully entitled to through the workers compensation system. Ms. Costis is a member of the California State Bar and of the Contra Costa County Bar Association. She is also an active member of the California Applicants' Attorneys Association (CAAA). Ms. Costis is active in her community as well, volunteering at various schools and youth sports organizations.

Workers Compensation Law

16152 Beach Blvd, Huntington Beach, CA 92647, USA

Dennis Thomas worked for several years as a Representative for insurance companies at Workers' Compensation Hearings at various state offices. After becoming an attorney, he decided to use this experience to fight for the rights of injured workers. Because our attorneys know both sides of the issues, they are uniquely prepared to handle California workers' compensation cases. With a quarter century of experience in the workers' compensation arena, attorney Dennis Thomas knows what it takes to prepare a successful claim. Many cases are resolved via settlements, but our lawyers are prepared to go to trial to fight for our clients' benefits and rights.

Workers Compensation Law

18425 Burbank Blvd, Tarzana, CA 91356, USA

Diana B. Berlin is an attorney in Tarzana, California, affiliated with the Law Office of Diana B. Berlin. Her California State Bar record lists an active license, attorney number 207953, and an office at 18425 Burbank Boulevard, Suite 719. The firm represents applicants and plaintiffs, with workers’ compensation, employer-related actions and personal injury as its stated areas of emphasis. Its Southern California clientele includes people injured at work and in automobile accidents. Contingency fees are the firm’s stated arrangement for this work: it says there is no charge for its time unless a workers’ compensation or personal injury case ends successfully. The personal injury practice described on the firm’s website covers claims brought by injured individuals and families after a death. Road accidents are one part of that work, including cases involving driver negligence or poor road maintenance. Another is construction injury litigation involving inadequate safety equipment or supervision. The firm also lists bicycle and boating accidents, premises liability and catastrophic injury among its case types. Beyond those accident categories, the firm describes representing people seriously injured by products with manufacturing or design defects. Dog bites and slip-and-fall matters also appear in its practice description. These are the firm’s published practice areas, rather than a separate list of matters attributed to Berlin individually.

Workers Compensation Law

4601 Wilshire Blvd #301, Los Angeles, CA 90010, USA

Diane Finston hails from McKeesport/Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—home of the Steelers and the Pirates—and is an avid fan of her hometown sports teams. Although a lover of winter, nevertheless she moved west to California, settling first in Berkeley and then relocating to Los Angeles. Diane graduated with her Bachelor of Arts degree from University of California, Berkeley and then received her Juris Doctor from University of California at Davis. Her journey toward being a workers’ compensation attorney was not necessarily a direct route. Wanting to either be in politics or a cellist, and prior to attending UC Berkeley, Diane ended up at the University of Chicago Hospital as radiologist in the oral surgery trauma unit and was the first Director of the Berkeley Free Clinic Dental Clinic Program. Diane applied to the University of California, ostensibly to become a dentist, but ended up with a degree in Anthropology. After graduating law school, she became a family lawyer with an 18-year association with Steven Adams of the California Law Reports Organization. Going into her ninth year, Diane is blessed to now be a member of the Hinden & Breslavsky team, empowering injured workers to receive their legal and medical rights as a RIGHT, not a PRIVILEGE.

Workers Compensation Law

444 West C St suite 310, San Diego, CA 92101, USA

Mr. Overholt is the owner of the Law Office of Eric M. Overholt and represents injured workers and people who have suffered a personal injury whether it be a work injury or an injury while not on the job. Mr. Overholt represents individuals who have Workers’ Compensation injuries to their backs, neck, spine and brain. He has also taken cases to represent those who were injured on the job and have needed extensive surgical repair of their shoulders, as well as people who have been so badly injured that they have needed complete knee replacement on one or more knees. He has handled numerous catastrophic injury cases to obtain benefits for paraplegics, hemiplegics, quadriplegics, and those with severe brain injuries. Mr. Overholt has represented hundreds of people with a work related injury up to and through trial and he has won several Petitions for Reconsideration to obtain benefits for his clients.

Workers Compensation Law

114 Union Jack Mall, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292, USA

George Woolverton is an attorney and partner at Woolverton, Woolverton & Wolsey in Los Angeles. His California State Bar record lists license number 68075 as active and records his admission on December 18, 1975. A change of firms marked his career in October 2025. In an October 20 report, adjustercom identified him as a workers’ compensation defense attorney and reported that he had started a new firm on October 1. The article named his former practice as Stockwell Harris Woolverton & Fox. Today, Woolverton, Woolverton & Wolsey lists him alongside Matthew Woolverton and Paul S. Wolsey under its partners. The firm gives its head-office address as 3415 Sepulveda Boulevard, Suite 1260, Los Angeles. The firm’s stated focus is the legal needs of California’s risk management industry. It represents self-insured employers, insurance companies and third-party administrators. In describing its workers’ compensation defense practice, the firm specifically includes serious and willful misconduct claims, claims under Labor Code section 132(a), and S.I.U. claims. Its website also lists subrogation, employment and labor law, civil liability, family law, and fair employment and housing. These are the firm’s listed services, rather than a statement of Woolverton’s individual caseload. The firm describes joint planning between its attorneys and clients and says it adapts legal management programs to each client’s needs.

Workers Compensation Law

2400 E. Katella Ave., 440, Anaheim, CA 92806

James “Jim” Schmerbauch is the Lead Attorney of JML Law’s Workers’ Compensation Group. Jim is primarily based at the Anaheim office of JML Law and has practiced law in California for the last 33 years. He has practiced exclusively in Workers’ Compensation for over 17 years, first on behalf of insurance companies defending workers’ injury claims and for the last eight years as an advocate for injured workers and litigating their injury claims at the California Workers’ Compensation Appeals Boards. As an advocate for injured workers during the last eight years, Jim has obtained Awards and Settlements of over 20 million dollars for the injured workers he has represented. Many of these awards and settlements included additional benefits provided and paid to clients during and after the litigation of their claims, including retraining via Supplemental Job Displacement benefits, temporary disability, and medical care for their injuries. Jim enjoys spending time with his immediate family, including his wife, daughter, and two grandchildren. Jim is also a reasonably accomplished musician and artist. He plays every weekend for church services, occasional parties, clubs, and restaurants.

Workers Compensation Law

5757 W Century Blvd ste 465, Los Angeles, CA 90045, USA

Ms. Savey was admitted to the State Bar of California in 2000. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts in 1997 from the University of San Francisco as well as an Honors Humanities Degree from the Saint Ignatius Institute. She continued her education with Golden Gate University School of Law whereat she obtained her Doctorate of Jurisprudence in 2000. She is a member of the State Bar of California Association and the Los Angeles County Bar Association. Her professional experience began in Workers’ Compensation in 2000. Throughout her career she has represented Employers, Insurance Carriers, Third Party Administrator’s, and CIGA in the California Workers’ Compensation System. She has assisted Employers in developing protocols and procedures for compliance with Medical Provider Networks. Ms. Savey has planned and conducted presentations for claims personnel advising of pertinent modification in the California workers compensation law as well as Medicare Set-Aside Allocations. In addition, she has participated in employer claims reviews for multiple accounts to facilitate a cohesive defense team inclusive of the employer and insurance representatives. Ms. Savey has undergone extensive legal training in Self Insured Employer Regulations in order to provide comprehensive analysis and assessment of liability in light of indemnity exposure inclusive of prospective monetary reserving of the claim. Ms. Savey has also provided National Risk Managers with recommendations to implement new policy for effective claims management in California as well as coordinate and lead team meetings with executive management to ensure compliance with the California Labor Code.

Workers Compensation Law

23151 Moulton Pkwy, Laguna Hills, CA 92653

www.johnrosenbaumlaw.com

Workers Compensation Law

5245 E. Santa Ana Canyon Road, Suite 120, Anaheim, CA 92807

Kevin Humphrey, Esq. is the founder and lead trial attorney at Humphrey & Associates. Mr. Humphrey did his undergraduate studies at the University of Southern California and received his Juris Doctorate at Western State University of Law. He was admitted by the State Bar of California in 1994. Immediately thereafter, he founded Humphrey & Associates. Today, Mr. Humphrey has assembled a group of ethical, experienced and compassionate associates who fight for the injured. He requires excellence and nothing less. Humphrey & Associates is considered one of the top injury law firms in the state of California. Mr. Humphrey has tried hundreds of cases and is considered to be one of the best trial attorneys in the State of California. His unwavering tenacity to fight for his clients speaks volumes for his passion to make sure that today’s profit driven insurance companies pay what is fair and nothing less. Mr. Humphrey has obtained millions of dollars for his clients in workers' compensation claims and more. He is the drive, compassion and core of the unsurpassed reputation of Humphrey & Associates.

Workers Compensation Law

999 Fifth Ave suite 430, San Rafael, CA 94901, USA

Linda Joanne Brown is a workers’ compensation attorney and partner at Brown & Delzell, LLP in San Rafael, California. The firm lists her professionally as Linda J. Brown. Her State Bar of California profile records an active license and admission to the California bar on January 5, 1972. The same profile lists her office at 999 Fifth Avenue, Suite 430, in San Rafael. Brown began representing injured workers in Northern California in 1976. Her firm biography also describes a period teaching legal research and writing at Hastings during two years of work with a court. She received her workers’ compensation Certificate of Specialization on April 12, 1983. From 1989 through 1993, she served as both chair and member of the Workers’ Compensation Law Advisory Commission within the State Bar’s Board of Legal Specialization. Her professional recognition includes the 2013 Attorney of the Year Award from the San Francisco Chapter of the California Applicants’ Attorneys Association. In 2018, she received the California Lawyers Association’s Applicant Attorney of the Year Award. Brown & Delzell describes its practice as workers’ compensation representation for first responders in California’s Bay Area. The firm’s other named partner is Karina Kowler Delzell. According to Delzell’s firm biography, she began working with Brown in 2014, representing first responders.

Workers Compensation Law

280 S Beverly Dr, Beverly Hills, CA 90212, USA

Marina R. Gordon is a workers’ compensation attorney at Law Offices of Gordon & Gordon, with a California State Bar address in Beverly Hills. Workers’ compensation accounts for 100 percent of the practice described in her individual firm biography. Her California admission dates to December 6, 2002, and State Bar license 222819 remains active. A Pepperdine University School of Law graduate with a J.D., Gordon also lists admission to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in her firm profile. The same profile names Russian and Spanish under languages. Its membership section includes the State Bar of California and the California Applicant’s Attorney Association. Gordon’s bar registration and the firm’s website give different office locations: the registration places her at 280 South Beverly Drive, Suite 316, Beverly Hills, while the website lists 11022 Santa Monica Boulevard, Suite 210, Los Angeles. For the firm, workers’ compensation representation includes both filing claims and appealing denials for workers throughout California. Its description of available benefits covers lost wages or salary, rehabilitation expenses and retraining costs, as well as permanent disability compensation. The firm also lists recovery for dependants following a worker’s death. Those benefit-specific descriptions concern the firm’s services; Gordon’s own practice listing identifies workers’ compensation without a separate list of claim types.

Workers Compensation Law

8880 Rio San Diego Dr ste 800, San Diego, CA 92108, USA

Area of Practice: Workers' Rights Law Ryan Stygar is the founder and CEO of Centurion Trial Attorneys, APC. Better known as “Attorney Ryan,” he is the most well-known worker’s rights lawyer in the country. Attorney Ryan has taken on some of the biggest corporations in the world, and through fierce advocacy, has secured millions of dollars in compensation for his clients. Attorney Ryan has earned the trust of millions of people on social media. His book,Get it in Writing: The Ultimate Guide to Your Rights at Work, has become the go-to resource for understanding employee rights in the United State. As a former firefighter, Attorney Ryan brings his passion for service, teamwork, and justice to every case. His blue-collar background makes him especially qualified to understand the challenges faced by people at work. From battling wildfires in California to fighting greedy corporations in court, Attorney Ryan has never backed down. Since founding Centurion Trial Attorneys, Attorney Ryan has led the charge to hold abusers accountable. From sexual harassment to discrimination, from wrongful termination to wage theft, Attorney Ryan and his team are ready to get justice for workers. Ryan was born and raised in San Diego, California. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from California Western School of Law. His research, Thinking Outside the Box: A Point-Based System of Reintegration for California’s Inmate Firefighters, was published in the California Western Law Review. Attorney Ryan’s research has been cited by state and local governments seeking to reform post-release employment outcomes for incarcerated persons—a key component to fighting crime and reducing instances of reoffending. Attorney Ryan is passionate about supporting the San Diego community. He regularly volunteers with Feeding San Diego, a non-profit dedicated to providing free, nutritious food to the community. Addressing food insecurity is one of Ryan’s most important goals in the city. Attorney Ryan is regularly featured in podcasts, news, and TV, where he advocates for workers’ rights. When he’s not fighting for workers rights, Attorney Ryan enjoys another kind of fight. As a competitive paintball player, he regularly competes in tournaments with Team Velocity Black. He’s been recognized as a leader on and off the field. Attorney Ryan has been featured on the award winning Play the Game Podcast, where he discussed the importance of mental resilience, diversity, positivity, and inclusion in the sport.

Workers Compensation Law

613 4th Street, Suite 204, Santa Rosa, CA 95404

Mr. Chalk has been practicing since 1997. He is a Certified Specialist by the State Bar of California. Mr. Chalk is active not only in California but on a national scale as well. Mr. Chalk is Past-President of the California Applicants' Attorneys Association (CAAA) and sits on the Board of Directors for Workers' Injury Law and Advocacy (WILG) a national organization on behalf of injured workers. If Mr. Chalk is unable to assist you, his vast network of attorneys allows him to refer you to someone who can take your case.

Workers Compensation Law

5555 Garden Grove Blvd., Suite 150, Westminster, CA 92683

Servando Timbol is a Co-Founder of Golden & Timbol, P.C. Servando has substantial experience litigating complex civil cases, international trade and customs issues, business disputes and real estate cases. This vast experience has translated well into effective and aggressive advocacy for injured workers through the California Workers’ Compensation system. Servando attended Western State University College of Law under a Merit Scholarship and he graduated in the top 10 of his class. He is a member of The California State Bar, the United States District Court, and the California Applicant’s Attorneys Association.

Workers Compensation Law

28692 Mira Vista, Laguna Niguel, CA 92677, USA

Sidney M. Sadeghi. Ms. Sadeghi has been an attorney for over 14 years. She has managed a diverse caseload involving civil trial litigation for the majority of her legal career. Ms. Sadeghi earned her education at the University of California at Irvine, Cambridge University in England, and Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles. Over her career, Ms. Sadeghi has obtained a multitude of trial victories for a variety of types of cases spanning from business litigation, general civil litigation, criminal law, probate litigation, and worker’s compensation. Ms. Sadeghi is a zealous advocate for her clients. Ms. Sadeghi is a frequent public speaker and lead trainer at events and seminars to raise awareness in various areas. Ms. Sadeghi’s book she authored entitled “Law in a Nutshell for the CEO,” will be published and available in 2020. Ms. Sadeghi speaks conversational French, Farsi, and limited Spanish. In her spare time, she is an avid snowboarder, scuba diver, fitness enthusiast, and Lakers Fan. She resides in Orange County, California, with her husband and two daughters. Ms. Sadeghi came to our firm seeking a new way to make a difference in people’s lives in 2019, and her zeal for the injured workers we represent has proven to be an excellent addition to our team.

Workers Compensation Law

16633 Ventura Blvd, Encino, CA 91436, USA