Meghann Fawcett is an Associate Attorney with Ritsema Law, as an defense attorney. Ms. Fawcett has been practicing workers compensation law since 2018, as both an applicant’s attorney and defense attorney. She is licensed in Arizona and New Mexico, and is an active member of Young Lawyers Division, and serves on the Board of Directors for Kids Chance of Arizona.

Marc Lamber focuses his practice on plaintiffs’ catastrophic injury and wrongful death litigation. He formed the plaintiff personal injury practice at Fennemore and has built it into the strong and innovative practice it is today.

After several years as a defense attorney, Marc wanted the opportunity to work on a more personal level with clients and saw personal injury law as the best outlet. He has recovered tens of millions of dollars for thousands of accident victims and their families, resulting in hundreds of successful jury trials, arbitrations, mediations, and settlements.

Marc is frequently featured on national, regional, and local media for comment on legal issues and other current affairs, including AI and other technology in the law. Marc has been featured on the cover of AZ Business Magazine as one of The Top 100 Lawyers in Arizona and highlighted by Newsweek as one of the “20 Leaders Plaintiffs’ Trial Lawyers.”

Christopher S. Norton has devoted 100% of his practice to the area of work injuries and claim resolution, including Full and Final Settlements. He is a Workers’ Compensation Certified Specialist (State Bar of Arizona Board of Legal Specialization). He received his law degree from Brigham Young University and is licensed in both Texas and Arizona. He has been recognized by his peers as a Southwest Super Lawyer from 2021-2024 and was previously recognized several times as a Southwest Super Lawyers Rising Star.

Before representing injured workers, he was a founding partner of a workers’ compensation defense firm representing many of Arizona’s most significant employers. He served on the boards of industry associations and was active in legislative affairs affecting workers’ compensation. He is a frequent speaker at workers’ compensation industry events and seminars. He also served on the ICA’s Bench-Bar committee for many years.

Chris has spent his career seeking and refining legal technology applications to create automations and efficiencies in case management and document generation. He founded his prior firm on entirely cloud-based technology in 2011. He has been instrumental in driving technological advancement and integrations between legal technology vendors to meet law firm needs.

Patricia Sallen is a lawyer in private practice focusing on professional responsibility issues. She represents lawyers in discipline and admission matters, provides ethics advice to lawyers, serves as an expert witness on professional-responsibility issues, and consults on a myriad of other law-related topics. She regularly presents at CLE seminars and publishes articles about professional responsibility and writes the Eye on Ethics column for Arizona Attorney. She also has taught professional responsibility as an adjunct professor at the Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law for more than a decade. In addition to practicing in private law firms, she spent more than 15 years working for the State Bar of Arizona as both a bar counsel and ethics counsel and supervised programs such as the Fee Arbitration Program and Client Protection Fund. She served as expert consultant to the Arizona Supreme Court's 2014-15 comprehensive ethical rules review effort and to the Court's 2019-20 Task Force on the Delivery of Legal Services, which resulted in the groundbreaking rule changes allowing non-lawyer firm ownership and legal paraprofessionals. She currently serves on the State Bar's Ethics Advisory Group and the Supreme Court's Task Force on Ethics Rules Governing the State Attorney General, County Attorneys, and Other Public Lawyers.

Honorable Paula Eaton is an Administrative Law Judge with the Industrial Commission of Arizona where she has been employed for the last twenty nine years. Prior to joining the Administrative Law Judge Division, Ms. Eaton was employed as a staff attorney with the agency. As a staff attorney, Ms. Eaton appeared before the Governor's Regulatory Review Commission, represented the agency in numerous OSHA fatality cases and workers' compensation cases, and appeared before the Arizona Court of Appeals and the Arizona Supreme Court in agency matters. She has received training in both basic and advanced mediation. She became an Administrative Law Judge in 2003. Since 2018, she has also worked as an instructor at Grand Canyon University teaching a graduate course on the U.S. and Arizona Constitution. Ms. Eaton is a past co-chair of the Workers' Compensation Section of the State Bar of Arizona; is a past co-chair of the CLE Committee of the Workers' Compensation Section; and is a past member of the editorial board of the Arizona Attorney magazine. Ms. Eaton has served as an editor of the Arizona Appellate Handbook, Workers' Compensation Section published by the State Bar of Arizona. She is the author of "The Americans with Disabilities Act and Workers' Compensation Law", Tort and Insurance Law Journal (Winter 1993).