Using Social Media to Expand Your Workers' Compensation Practice: Featured Topic at AAJ Annual Convention

The Workers’ Compensation and Workplace Injury Section, invites you to the 2012 AAJ (American Association for Justice) Annual Convention in Chicago. A goal of the  Section is to provide for our members the best information on legal remedies to protect employees in the workplace, as well as to provide legal redress to workers harmed in the course of performing their job. 

Jason L Gelman
Co-Founder Tembow
& Gelman Media

The Section will hold an education program on Sunday, July 29, 2012that will focus on obtaining cases and leveraging your practice. Speakers include: Jason Gelman (NY), Rachel Derkits-Gelman (NY) and Brenda S. Fulmer (FL). This will cover possible utilization of social media, identifying mass tort and third-party claims, and ethical issues.


You are encouraged you to attend the Convention, learn about these vital issues in workers compensation and workplace injury.

Click here for registration information.

Sunday, July 29, 2012

Workers’ Compensation and Workplace Injury Section

Northwest 3 (Lower Level, Chicago Hilton)

Chair:  Edgar Romano, NY

Moderator: Laura Reis, GA

Obtaining Cases and Leveraging Your Practice

1. Using social media to cost-effectively attract workers’ compensation cases
2. Leveraging your workers’ compensation practice to provide better service to your 
clients


9:15 am Opening Remarks/Section Elections


9:30 am Five Reasons Your Firm Can’t Afford to Ignore Social Media and How to Get Started 
Jason Gelman, NY
Rachel Derkits Gelman, NY


10:15 am  Leveraging Your Workers’ Compensation Practice into Mass Torts
(partial ethics)
• How to identify potential mass tort and third-party claims 
• Ethical issues; special procedural and forum issues
Brenda S. Fulmer, FL


11:00 am Adjourn


More Information About Social Media and Workers Compensation

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