2021 Virtual Annual Workers' Compensation CLE Program - Day 2

Eric C Awerkamp Related Seminars and Products

Attorney

Awerkamp Law

C Andrew Campbell Related Seminars and Products

ICA - ALJ Division

Honorable C. Andrew Campbell, Chief Administrative Law Judge at the Industrial Commission of Arizona (“ICA”), has been an Administrative Law Judge at the ICA since 2014. Prior to joining the ICA, Andy worked in private practice in Arizona beginning in 2001. In private practice he represented plaintiffs and defendants in administrative proceedings and civil litigation throughout Arizona. His experience includes personal injury litigation, business litigation, construction defect litigation, insurance bad faith, underinsured/uninsured motorist arbitration, and insurance coverage disputes. Andy served as a Judge Pro Tem for the Maricopa County Superior Court presiding over civil calendars, settlements conferences, and other alternative dispute resolution matters. He is licensed in Arizona and South Carolina, having practiced law in South Carolina from 1999-2001 prior to moving to Arizona. Andy is a graduate of the University of South Carolina School of Law (J.D. 1999) and Presbyterian College (B.A. 1996).

Laura Clymer Related Seminars and Products

Attorney

Clymer Legal PLLC

Laura Clymer is an attorney and owner at Clymer Legal PLLC. The Tucson, Arizona law firm counsels and represents people in Arizona workers’ compensation and Social Security Disability cases. Laura is certified by the State Bar of Arizona (SBA) as a workers’ compensation legal specialist. She is a member of the Workers’ Compensation Law Advisory Commission She also serves on the executive board of the Arizona Association of Lawyers for Injured Workers (AALIW), an organization that advocates for the rights of injured workers.
Laura, a native Arizonan, graduated from the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University in 2013. She was one of 11 in her graduating class of 210 students to receive a Dean’s Award for outstanding contributions and performance at the law school. She passed the Arizona bar exam in July 2013 and was licensed to practice law on December 11, 2013.
In addition to practicing full-time as an Arizona workers’ compensation lawyer and assisting clients in obtaining Social Security Disability benefits, Laura is a part-time, adjunct professor of law practice at the University of Arizona (UA), where she teaches a legal writing, analysis and research class to UA undergraduate law majors and MLS graduate students.
While in law school, Laura was co-editor-in-chief of the Law Journal for Social Justice; served on the executive board of OUTLaw, the gay-straight student alliance; and worked as a research assistant in the ASU Work-Life Policy Unit of the Civil Justice Clinic at the law school. She also completed legal externships for U.S. Magistrate Judge David K. Duncan, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and clerked one summer in Maricopa County Superior Court. She was the 2012 recipient of the R. Kelly Hocker Employment and Labor Law scholarship and a co-recipient of the Jonathan Paul Schubert Memorial scholarship in 2013.
Laura’s writing and research projects while in law school included: researching and contributing to chapter seven in “The Rights of the Accused under the Sixth Amendment” (Paul Marcus et al, American Bar Association, 2012); “Drone Journalism: What Happens When the ‘Intrepid Reporter’ Takes to the Skies?” (Privacy Law seminar paper, spring 2013); and exploring and evaluating “take-home asbestos” liability under Arizona law (Products Liability seminar, graduation paper, fall 2012).
Prior to law school, Laura was a journalist for 18 years. She was the city editor and online content editor for the award-winning Arizona Daily Sun newspaper in Flagstaff from 2001 until August 2010. Laura’s writing, interviewing, and investigative skills honed during her years as a journalist have proved invaluable in making the transition from a journalist to a lawyer.
Laura received her bachelor’s degree in history and communication, cum laude, in 1986 from DePauw University. While at DePauw, she played basketball and softball for the Tigers, wrote for the student newspaper and student yearbook, and was on the steering committee for DePauw’s Little 500 bicycle race.
Outside of work, Laura takes on an active role in her faith community, Casas Adobes Congregational, U.C.C. She is a member of the Rotary Club of Marana, where she served as club president from 2022 to 2024. She’s a loyal fan of UA athletics, and enjoys reading, movies, travel, and most of all, spending time with family and friends over a great meal.

Margaret H Downie Related Seminars and Products

Presiding Disciplinary Judge

Judge Downie is the Presiding Disciplinary Judge for the Arizona Supreme Court -- presiding over formal attorney discipline, disability, and reinstatement proceedings. Judge Downie previously served as Executive Director of the Arizona Commission on Judicial Conduct and Staff Director of the Arizona Supreme Court's Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee. From 2008 to 2017, Judge Downie was a judge on the Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One. Prior to that, she spent 11 years on the Maricopa County Superior Court, where she was Associate Presiding Judge and Civil Presiding Judge.

Judge Downie graduated with a B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She received her J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. After law school, Judge Downie worked in the civil litigation department of Jennings, Strouss & Salmon in Phoenix. Thereafter, she spent almost ten years in the lawyer regulation department of the State Bar of Arizona, ultimately serving as Chief Bar Counsel.

Amy L Foster Related Seminars and Products

Honorable Amy Foster serves as an Administrative Law Judge in Arizona, specializing in worker's compensation cases. Raised in Phoenix, she attended Carnegie Mellon University for undergraduate, and pursued her legal aspirations at the University of Arizona Law School, graduating in 2003. Amy's professional trajectory led her to hone her skills in disability and licensing law. In 2017, Amy joined the Industrial Commission of Arizona as an Administrative Law Judge. She also serves on the Committee on Character and Fitness for the Arizona State Bar.

LuAnn Haley Related Seminars and Products

Honorable LuAnn Haley has been an Administrative Law Judge with the Industrial Commission of Arizona since 1999. Judge Haley graduated from college and law school in Pennsylvania and received her Juris Doctorate from the Dickinson School of Law in 1981. She practiced law in Pennsylvania from 1981 through 1998 before moving to Arizona in 1998. She continues to be admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania and also has been licensed in Arizona since 1999. While practicing in Pennsylvania, she handled workers’ compensation cases for employers, carriers and self-insured employers. Judge Haley has been a frequent lecturer for continuing legal education seminars in both Arizona and Pennsylvania and also serves on the CLE committee for the State Bar of Arizona’s Workers’ Compensation Section. Judge Haley is a Fellow of the College of Workers’ Compensation Lawyers and serves on the Executive Committee for the organization. In addition, she is a member of the National Association of Workers’ Compensation Judiciary and serves as is one of the editors for the NAWCJ’s monthly newsletter.

Jessica Jean-Marie Kokal Related Seminars and Products

Broening Oberg Woods & Wilson PC

Jessica Kokal is a partner with Broening Oberg Woods & Wilson. Jessica moved to the Valley from the Detroit metropolitan area to attend Barrett, the Honors College at Arizona State University as a National Merit scholar recruit. She remained at Arizona State University to attend law school at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law while also working full-time at a small Phoenix firm. After joining the firm of Broening, Oberg, Woods & Wilson as an associate in 2016, Jessica was invited to become a partner in 2018.

During her career, Jessica has defended over 30 arbitrations both in what are now known as Tier 1 cases in the state of Arizona and in the AAA forum, taken and defended hundreds of depositions, participated in dozens of administrative hearings and settlement conferences, and defended multiple trials, before both juries and the presiding disciplinary judge and disciplinary hearing panel, to verdict. She currently focuses her practice in the areas of general liability defense, insurance bad faith with a focus in workers’ compensation bad faith, and professional malpractice and lawyer disciplinary proceedings.

In addition to maintaining her practice, Jessica oversees the firm’s mentorship program and chairs the firm’s marketing and recruitment committees. Between 2017 and 2019, she also directed the Phoenix Ladder Down program, designed to help women lawyers extend the “ladder down” to other women lawyers. She currently leads the firm’s mentorship program.

Katherine Kuhlman Related Seminars and Products

Owner and Chief Psychologist

Kuhlman Psychology & Consulting

Lisa M LaMont Related Seminars and Products

Lundmark Barberich LaMont & Slavin PC

Eric W Slavin Related Seminars and Products

Industrial Commission of Arizona

Amy White Related Seminars and Products

Psychologist

Comprehensive Fitness & Consultation, LLC

Hammad Zafar Related Seminars and Products

Mirage Podiatry