Workers Comp Zone

A Partner at Boxer & Gerson LLP, Julius Young has practiced worker’s compensation law and social security disability law since 1979. He has represented thousands of individuals who have sustained life-changing injuries or illnesses while on the job. In every case, his goal is to secure the medical treatments his clients need.

March 5, 2011

A MODEL

Is there a way for the workers’ comp system to better serve workers in agricultural communities, many of whom are monolingual Spanish speakers and some of whom are employed by uninsured employers? That’s the goal of the Watsonville Law Center and the Agricultural Workers’ Access to Health Project, which is a project of California Rural […]


March 3, 2011

BROKE TOWN, USA

About a 20 minute drive from my office is Broke Town, USA. I’m referring to Vallejo, California, which declared municipal bankruptcy. Vallejo would have seemed to have everything going for it. Beautiful views of the San Francisco Bay. A ferry that crosses the bay to the financial district. Many of America’s greatest wineries are 30 […]


February 7, 2011

THE CONCUSSION CRISIS

As I write this at Super Bowl halftime, the cheeseheads are ascendant. Like many of you, I’m glued to our yearly ritual. After today’s game, the players union and the owners still face a standoff over the future of the game. Will players be forced into concessions? More games? My law partner Michael Gerson represents […]


February 3, 2011

FOOD FIGHT

Who doesn’t love a good food fight? Every kid remembers the fantasy of smothering Uncle Elmer’s face in a banana cream pie. I’ll never forget the battle of the sloppy joes when there was a power failure at the dining hall my freshman college year. And who could forget the cinematic food fights in Animal […]


January 30, 2011

THEIR WORKERS AND OURS

About 12 years ago I was on a train in Tunisia, traveling from Tunis towards El Jem, site of a perfectly preserved Roman colosseum. Passing dusty towns and rolling hillsides of olive trees, there was the occasional stop at a small station. The visage of strongman Ben Ali, Tunisia’s president, stared from portraits hung in […]


January 27, 2011

REVERED

Revered by his peers. That’s an apt description of William Herreras of Grover Beach. On Saturday night in San Diego at CAAA’s 2011 winter conference those peers came out en masse to see Herreras awarded the California Applicants Attorneys Association’s most prestigious award, the Eugene Marias award. The award, named after a legendary founding member […]


January 21, 2011

A BEDROOM IN THE HOUSE

From San Diego: The California Applicants Attorneys Association has now affiliated with several Teamsters Joint Councils 7 and 42 and the California Teamsters Public Affairs Council. For some years now there’s been tension between the house of labor and applicant attorneys. As several speakers acknowledged, it was time either to acknowledge likely continued estrangement and […]