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I have been involved in personal injury and workers' compensation litigation for over 40 years.  I currently enjoy the responsibility and challenge of defending workers' compensation claims under the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act, Defense Base Act, Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act and the Nonappropriated Fund Instrumentalities Act, and protecting the subrogation interests of employers and carriers.

As president at Canlas Law Group, APLC, workers’ compensation attorney Christopher J. Canlas provides legal counsel to residents throughout the Los Angeles area. Attorney Canlas handles a variety of civil litigation matters including assisting injured workers, SSDI applicants, and employment and immigration law. He currently holds a 7.7 Very Good rating on . Attorney Canlas received his Juris Doctor from the University Miami School of Law. Mr. Canlas is fluent in several different languages, including Spanish and Tagalog.

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My main objective on every case is is to fight for injured workers to get them the workers' compensation benefits they deserve and are entitled to.. If you or a loved one has been injured on the job, partnering with a skilled workers' compensation attorney is extremely important.. For more than 75 years, our firm has helped clients recover the compensation they deserve for work-related injuries.. Call to schedule a free consultation so we can discuss your case today.

I have been fighting for the rights of injured workers at the law firm of Cantrell Green since 2000.. For two years, I served as the Chair of the Workers’ Compensation Section of the Long Beach Bar Association. I am also a member of the California Applicant Attorneys Association. I represents injured workers - including safety officers - in workers’ compensation claims. Each case is given the utmost attention it deservs to obtain the maximum benefits for which each client qualifies.. I have also volunteered at the Legal Aid in Orange County, the office of the Orange County Public Defender, the West Covina Courthouse (formerly Citrus Municipal Court), and the Los Angeles Superior Court in Pomona.. Your first consultation is always free - and in most cases there is no fee upfront until we win for you.

I have been selected as a Workers’ Compensation “Super Lawyer” in the Los Angeles Magazine survey of Southern California attorneys every year since the survey began in 2004.. I am certified by the State Bar as a Workers’ Compensation Specialist - and I am also experienced in handling Social Security and disability retirement claims. In recent years, I have also focused on injured safety officers.. I obtained my law degree at Loyola University in Los Angeles. Before that, I did my undergraduate work at Oberlin College in Ohio, and my graduate studies at both Columbia University and UCLA. I was a union activist for many years, including serving as a shop steward and chief shop steward - before becoming an attorney.. I have served as Chair of the Workers’ Compensation Section of the Long Beach Bar.. I fight for the rights of injured workers, and give every case the time and attention it deserves. Your first consultation is always free - and in most cases there is no fee upfront until we win for you.

Attorney Daniel L. Hitzke is the managing partner of Hitzke & Ferran, LLP and has worked with our firm for twelve years. Mr. Hitzke was born in Ciudad Obregon, Sonora, Mexico in 1974. After he received his Bachelor of Arts degree from California State University, Chico, he attended the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, California. He received his Juris Doctor degree in May of 2000. Mr. Hitzke started his career as an attorney at a prominent Southern California workers’ compensation law firm. After years of dedication to his clients and dozens of successful trials, he became a partner at that firm. Within two years of becoming a partner, he converted the workers’ compensation firm into a multi-practice litigation firm now known as Hitzke & Ferran LLP.. Mr. Hitzke is an experienced trial attorney, representing clients in workers’ compensation, personal injury, employment and discrimination actions, and business litigation cases throughout California. He has had numerous favorable jury verdicts in the State of California Superior Court, along with numerous finding and award decisions before both the Workers Compensation Appeals Board and the State of California Labor Commissioner. Mr. Hitzke also belongs to the Million Dollar Advocates Forum. This organization allows only the noted “Top Trial” attorneys in the United States to join as members. He earned this prestigious distinction by representing injured persons and their families and obtained numerous verdicts/awards worth over one million dollars.. Mr. Hitzke works primarily out of our Long Beach office. He is a member of various honorary boards and organizations and actively coaches youth sports.

Over the past 19 years, Ms. Pratt’s focus has been workers’ compensation and personal injury. She is known for her compassion for clients and aggressive advocacy on their behalf. Her sensitivity, optimism, work ethic, and dedication to her clients have resulted in a high rate of client satisfaction and excellent case results.. "I want my clients to know that every day the entire staff of our law firm is dedicated to assisting that client back to a healthy lifestyle and compensating them to the fullest extent of the law!". Ms. Pratt has handled thousands of cases and her accomplishments in California run from the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board and California Superior Court to the California Court of Appeal and Supreme Court of California. She has also successfully litigated cases outside of California before the United States District Court, 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, Wyoming Supreme Court, and North Dakota Supreme Court. Her watchword always has been and will continue to be: Commitment.. On a personal note, Ms. Pratt was born and raised in Southern California and is an alumnus of Western State University College of Law where she graduated with Cum Laude honors. While at Western she was proud to be a member of the Women’s Law Association, received nine American Jurisprudence awards, and was an editor of Law Review. When not practicing law, Ms. Pratt enjoys snowboarding, motorcycle riding, reading, and playing with her dogs.

My primary professional goal is to never forget the needs of my clients. Too often attorneys focus on the case, rather than the client. Although I have a passion for litigation, my greater passion is to serve my client well. Being creative, finding the resolution to the problem that escapes others, understanding the culture of my client and what they deem important enables me to distinuish my services from others

Community service and hard work have been taught to me since birth.  I spent my early years being actively involved in volunteer and community organizations.. As an attorney, I enjoy working hard to serve my clients with their workers' compensation and social security disability claims.  As my current clients would attest to, I do not simply hang up my hat at the end of each work day.. It is not uncommon to hear from me on weekends or in the early evenings at times if a new issue arises in your claim, and I want to touch base with you to give my advice on how to proceed.. I work hard to provide the best quality legal service to my clients throughout their claim.  I do this because I care about my clients as individuals; and because I try for achieving the best results possible in your case... Outside of work, I can usually be found outdoors, exploring forest preserves and state parks with my husband, two daughters, and our (mostly) well trained dogs.

Tegan Couch has over 20 years of experience in the legal field. She began her legal career as a paralegal in Kentucky working in a firm specializing in Social Security Disability and Personal Injury. Ms. Couch moved to East Tennessee to pursue her dream of becoming an attorney and graduated law school cum laude while working with McKinnish Law Group, PLLC and raising her children. This strong work ethic, ability to handle the pressures of law school, work and a family with success makes Ms. Couch particularly well-suited to handle the pressures of intense litigation. Her practice areas focus on personal injury, worker’s compensation & social security, family law,and criminal defense.

Scott J. Bloch is a trial lawyer who has specialized in complex litigation, class actions, employment and personal injury for nearly 30 years vindicating his clients in their quest for justice.  Recognized as a tenacious and skilled attorney, he has appeared in federal, state, administrative, and appellate courts across the country, including in the United States Supreme Court.  His areas of concentration are:. Complex consumer, class action, personal injury and professional malpractice matters. Defense Base Act actions against contractors and insurance carriers. Employment discrimination, federal rights, personnel law, whistleblower retaliation, public policy retaliation. Qui tam (false claims) suits against private corporations for defrauding the taxpayer. Government contracts disputes and executive compensation. He served two years in the United States Department of Justice as Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General on matters involving constitutional litigation, and for five years was the government’s chief enforcer of federal employment rights and whistleblower disclosures where he attained notoriety as the head of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel.  He garnered national news for his work in the grounding of 1000 airplanes due to unsafe cracks in fusilages, his pursuit of disciplinary actions against high administration officials in multiple departments and the White House, and championing the rights of nationally recognized whistleblowers in such places as the Department of Defense (faulty Katrina pumps and government contracting irregularities), the Border Patrol (fraudulent kickback scheme), and the Federal Aviation Administration (cover up of FAA air traffic system near misses, widespread cover up of airworthiness inspections).  He has testified on federal rights before the United States Congress and has appeared regularly in the media on programs such as NPR (Morning Edition and All Things Considered), CNN, C-Span, NBC Nightly News, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, US News & World Report, Newsweek, St. Louis Post Dispatch. He has written on the need to recognize whistleblowers and on the enforcement of other employment rights.. He and his team recently obtained settlement of a national consumer class action against General Motors (in re Dex Cool)  that was valued at $300 million and has tried cases successfully in the area of employment rights, financial fraud, contracts, and consumer protection.  He believes in aggressive pursuit of justice on behalf of those whose rights have been denied, economically, personally, and constitutionally.  “My whole career has been dedicated to bringing expeditious justice to those who have been denied justice.”. Justice delayed, is justice denied.