Best Lawyers in America for Workers' Compensation Law - Claimants
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With more than 25 years of legal experience, Brent focuses on delivering thoughtful, compassionate representation tailored to each client’s circumstances. He believes effective legal advocacy begins with listening, clear communication, and one-on-one attention, ensuring clients feel informed and respected at every stage of their case. Brent regularly represents injured individuals in Workers’ Compensation Law for claimants, helping employees pursue benefits after on-the-job injuri...
John M. Popelka focuses his practice exclusively representing public and private sector clients in the area of Workers’ Compensation law. Equally comfortable in the courtroom and at the negotiating table, a significant portion of his practice involves litigating and settling claims for union workers who suffer career-ending injuries, permanent total disability, catastrophic injuries requiring home modification and lifetime medical care, and death cases. John joined Anesi Ozmon in 1993, ...
Edward Connell, Jr. is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Agriculture Law, Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs and Workers' Compensation Law - Claimants. Edward, who practices law in Clarksdale, Mississippi, has been recognized since 2022. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Edward is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.
Susan “Ali” Overby joined the Law Offices of James Scott Farrin in 2015 and was selected as a firm Partner in 2024. She is an integral member of the firm’s Workers’ Compensation Law – Claimants practice, where she represents injured workers throughout Durham, North Carolina and across the state. Ali is known for her thoughtful and client-focused approach to helping individuals navigate the workers’ compensation process after a workplace injury. Ali is Board...
Kevin M. Noonan is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Workers' Compensation Law - Claimants. Kevin M., who practices law in Topsham, Maine, has been recognized since 2018. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Kevin M. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.
Steve Ryan is an associate with Martin Law who practices workers’ compensation law. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Ryan worked for a regional firm that helped claimants secure Workers’ Compensation benefits in the Susquehanna Valley. Before practicing claimant’s workers’ compensation, he had worked at a top defense firm, but he left to focus his practice on injured workers after observing the difficulties that many workers faced in the workers’ compensation syste...
Brian Cloherty is a partner at Keches Law Group, which he joined in 1988. He is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and the U.S. District Court. He is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association and the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys, where he is a frequent guest lecturer. Mr. Cloherty is an aggressive advocate for his clients, representing injured union members and other workers at the Department of Industrial Accidents, Social Security Administration and local Retirement Board...
Robert 'Chip' Younce Jr. is a partner at Younce & Vtipil, P.A. Chip is a board certified North Carolina workers’ compensation lawyer and a member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the North Carolina Advocates for Justice, the Workplace Injury Litigation Group, the North Carolina Bar Association, and the Wake County Bar Association. He has been heavily involved in church and community service throughout his career. Chip currently serves as bishop of the Cary Second Ward...
Joseph C. Huttemann is a partner at Martin Law and has concentrated his practice in the area of workers’ compensation litigation since 1992. Mr. Huttemann is the current Chairman of the Workers’ Compensation section of the Pennsylvania Association for Justice, the leading organization for the protection of injured workers’rights in the commonwealth. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Huttemann defended workers’ compensation claims for insurance carriers and employers. In a...
Patrick Jennings has been an attorney at Joye Law Firm's Charleston office since January of 2007. He works in Joye Law Firm's workers’ compensation department, where he has represented hundreds of injured workers. The son of a teacher/coach and a nurse, he grew up seeing his parents helping others, and he brings that approach to his legal practice. He understands that the people coming through the door need his help and understanding.
Matt Harbin joined the Law Offices of James Scott Farrin in 2003 and became a Partner in 2008. Based in Greensboro, North Carolina, he represents injured workers throughout the state with a focus on Workers’ Compensation Law for claimants. Matt practices in the firm’s Workers’ Compensation Department and is certified by the North Carolina State Bar in Workers’ Compensation Law. He earned his Juris Doctor from the University of North Carolina School of Law and his Bache...
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