Charlene Usher, Esq.
Principal & Managing Attorney
Usher Law Group P.C.
Principal & Managing Attorney
Usher Law Group P.C.
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Charlene L. Usher, Esq. provides this timely article on the ABA's 2010 National Trends & Emerging Issues In Worker's Compensation Law and Practice with an emphasis on fraud....
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Work HistoryUSHER LAW GROUP P.C. (ULG) - Principal & Managing Attorney - Pomona California Ms. Usher has over 15 years of workers’ compensation experience in northern & southern California. In her pre-law career, she successfully completed a Claims Certificate program and obtained her self-insured administrator’s license while a claims examiner. Ms. Usher’s claims-handling expertise provides an advantage to her clients and allows her to work as an effective team member with both employers and their insurance adjusters and third party administrators to achieve optimum results. Throughout her legal career, Ms. Usher has specialized in workers’ compensation and employment defense. In 2001, Ms. Usher established Usher Law Group, P.C., a Certified woman and minority-owned firm, to meet the needs of sophisticated employers who appreciate attention to detail, responsiveness and excellent service. WATERS & ROBINSON, LLC - Associate - Dimond Bar, California Ms. Usher served as a worker's compensation litigation associate for the boutique worker's compensation defense firm Waters & Robinson, LLC. SEYFARTH SHAW FAIRWEATHER AND GERALDSON - Los Angeles, California Ms. Usher served as a general litigation associate in the litigation department of Seyfarth. Ms. Usher was responsible for legal research and discovery preparpation. LIBERTY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY - Staff Attorney - San Francisco, California As a staff attorney, Ms. Usher represented Liberty Mutual and its insureds before the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board and managed all settlment negotiations, strategies, conducted discovery, directed investigations, drafted appeal board petitions, briefs and reserached and interpreted applicable case law. COURT ADMISSIONs: United States Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit, the California Supreme Court, and the U.S. Supreme Court OTHER LICENSES: Self-Insurance Adminstrators License, 1993 BAR MEMBERSHIPS & PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: American Bar Association (ABA) Corporate Counsel Committee Member, Litigation Section Member, Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section Workers’ Compensation Committee (contributing author) State Bar of California - Workers' Compensation Section Alameda County Bar Association John M. Langston Bar Associaton Black Women Lawyers of Los Angeles, Life Member Charles Houston Bar Association California Minority Counsel Program National Association of Women Business Owners California Association of Black Lawye CALIFORNIA STATE BAR Click here to view attorney's California State Bar profile State Bar AdmissionCalifornia 1997 Representative ClientsAT&T, Northrup Grumman, Laidlaw, Ceders Sinai, Grainger, Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority, Payless Shoe Source, Sempra Energy, Southern California Edison, Ameron International Practice Areas:Practice ExperienceGeneral Litigation, Workers' Compensation Defense, Trust & Estate Planning |
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(AWARD) 2001 - ABA Diversity Fellowship
03/07/2010
Ms. Usher received the 2001 American Bar Association Diversity Fellowship award from the General Practice and Solo Practitioner Division....
(Board Service) 006-2007 NBA Commercial Law Section Advisor
03/07/2010
Ms. Usher served as an advisor to the National Bar Association Commercial Law Section from 2006 to 2007....
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OUR APPROACH: Usher Law Group, P.C. principals and associates pride themselves on their degree of accessibility and responsiveness that cannot be matched by other organizations with out prohibitive costs. Usher Law Group, P.C. operates as a team with skills and abilities tailored to the needs of our clients. Our efficiency in handling our cases relies upon careful establishment of close working relationships and open lines of communications with the employer, risk manager or other representative, as well as the appropriate administrator, individual examiner or adjuster. This proactive approach enhances the opportunity for early success and defines the ultimate direction and disposition of the case facilitation expeditious resolution. Usher Law Group, P.C. believes in forceful and aggressive protection and prosecution of employer rights, to the extent that our clients’ best interests are served. In order to establish those interests, we communicate throughout the life of the case regarding any doubt as to defensibility as well as discernible changes in risk assessment or in the potential trade-offs between settlement and litigation. Finally, we believe that long-term relationships between client and attorney are mutually beneficial. To that end, we offer seminars as well as customized training to our clients. We also provide periodic updates of recent changes in law and practices in order to meet the changing needs of our clients. OUR EXPERIENCE Our experience and current case load for workers' compensation claims range from simple injury to life threatening disease and death. We also regularly defend multiple injury cases as well as Petitions to Reopen for New and Further Disability. Our attorneys and support staff have working familiarity with the full array of claims for physical trauma and exposures to orthopedic, internal and psychiatric claims as well as cumulative trauma injury allegations. The firm’s client base reflects the breadth and diversity of the California employment structure. Some principal clients of Usher Law Group, P.C. include the following:
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