Jeffrey M. Adelson is the firm's General Counsel, Co-Managing Partner of the Santa Ana Office and Managing Partner of the National Practice Group. He has practiced in the field of Workers' Compensation for over 30 years. Mr. Adelson has served as a Judge Pro Tem. He has been a workers' compensation instructor at several colleges in Southern California. He has also lectured extensively regarding workers' compensation, employment, and subrogation issues to physician, employer, insurer, and labor groups. Some of his lectures may be heard through an audio series entitled, "Legal Management Resources", and the video lecture entitled, "Meeting at the Crossroads".

Omar A. Behnawa is a Senior Attorney at the San Diego office of Laughlin, Falbo, Levy & Moresi, LLP. Mr. Behnawa received his Bachelor's of Arts (BA) degree from San Diego State University in 2002 and his Juris Doctorate (JD) degree from Seton Hall University School of Law in 2007 He is admitted to practice in all State Courts in California and has passed the Workers' Compensation Legal Specialization exam (expected to become a certified specialist within the next 3 months). Mr. Behnawa defends employers and insurance carriers in all aspects of workers' compensation law including Labor Code section 132a and Serious and Willful injury claims.

Meredith T. Brogan is the senior vice president and chief ethics and compliance officer at Atlanta-based Crawford & Company®, Broadspire®'s parent company. For more than 75 years, Crawford has solved the world's claims handling challenges as it focuses on its mission to restore and enhance lives, businesses and communities. Meredith is responsible for directing all aspects of the company's global ethics and compliance program. The focus of the program is also on people: providing employees and third parties with information, tools, guidance, training and support for compliance with Crawford's Code of Business Conduct and Ethics and ensuring that Crawford's ethical values are integrated into business practices on a consistent basis around the world.

L. Pepper Cossar, a shareholder of Markow Walker, P.A. in Jackson, MS has practiced primarily workers' compensation law for the last 22 years and is licensed in all state and federal courts in Mississippi and Alabama. He is a member of the Mississippi Bar Association, the Alabama Bar Association, and the Madison County Bar Association, of which he is also a past president. Mr Cossar has served as a faculty speaker for numerous Worker's Compensation seminars. He is an approved Mediator for Worker's Compensation matters in the State of Mississippi and has received consecutive AV ratings from Martindale-Hubbell for the last 9 years. Mr. Cossar received his B.A. and his J.D. from the University of Mississippi.

Teresa E. Dietz is a San Diego-based workers' compensation attorney who began her practice as a civil attorney representing small business owners and corporations with their daily operations, employee unemployment appeals, benefits packages, labor issues, transactional work and litigation. Her practice became exclusively related to workers' compensation in 2004. She is an associate with Laughlin Falbo Levy and Moresi in San Diego, CA. Ms. Dietz has served as the chair of the Workers' Compensation section of the San Diego County Bar Association for 10 years, has been a guest speaker on Workers' Compensation issues for the California State Bar and has been a Judge Pro Tempore for the San Diego WCAB, along with serving as a Pro Tem for the San Diego County Superior Court for 18 years.

Jennifer Morris Jones is a partner in Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog, LLP's Raleigh office and is a member of the Workers' Compensation Practice Group. She is a North Carolina Board Certified Workers' Compensation Specialist. Jennifer enjoys actively working with her clients to develop cost effective strategies to resolve workers' compensation claims. With her clients' business interests in mind, Jennifer strives to achieve positive and cost-effective resolutions to workers' compensation disputes. To achieve those goals, Jennifer counsels clients in resolving claims through a strategic Motion practice, when appropriate. Such Motions may include Form 24 Applications and Motions to Compel discovery responses, compliance with medical treatment and compliance with vocational rehabilitation. Jennifer has experience handling all aspects of the process from claims investigation, witness interviews, motions practice, mediation, hearings, appeals and medical depositions. Jennifer also has handled appeals from the Deputy Commissioner level to the Full Commission, as well as from the Full Commission level to the North Carolina Court of Appeals. Jennifer's niche is her Form 24 practice. This practice involves moving the Industrial Commission to terminate or suspend an employee's weekly temporary total disability (TTD benefits) on an expedited basis without prolonged litigation. For example, if an employee refuses a job that his treating physician has approved for him, a Form 24 Application may be appropriate. If the treating physician has released the employee to return to full-duty work, a Form 24 Application may be appropriate. Jennifer has succeeded in not only securing Form 24 Application approvals, but she has also secured monetary credits/offsets for her clients as well. Jennifer works with her clients to determine whether this potential money-saving strategy is applicable on a case-by-case basis. Jennifer also counsels her clients on proactive measures they can take to be better suited when they need to defend a claim. Recently, her counsel with regard to these types of measures has specifically focused on clients' hiring processes to ensure they are utilizing all the benefits of the 2011 Legislative Reform.

Diane L. Karpman She is an expert witness in professional liabilty, and advises law firms as their out-house/in-house counsel. Ms. Karpman is a Certified State Bar Legal Malpractice Specialist, and actively advises law firms in class action and wage and hour cases.

Cliff Levy is the Presiding Judge for the San Diego Workers' Compensation Appeals Board. He obtained a Bachelors of Arts degree in 1976 from the University of California, Berkeley, and his Juris Doctor degree from the University of San Diego School of Law in 1980. From 1980 to 1996 he represented injured workers in state and federal workers' compensation matter with Myles, Hanauer and Levy in San Diego. In 1997 he joined the Law Office of Jeff Scott, representing private employers and public agencies in workers' compensation and labor law matters. He became a workers' compensation judge in 2005, and in 2007 he was appointed the presiding judge of the San Diego Workers' Compensation Appeals Board. He is a San Diego resident for over thirty years, and is a frequent presenter, writer and speaker on the top of the ever changing workers' compensation laws in California.