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Author Profile
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Melissa C. Brown |
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Melissa Brown is an attorney with the Sacramento law firm of Farrell, Fraulob & Brown.
She is a certified specialist in workers' compensation and her practice includes trial and appellate work in workers' compensation, disability, and employment law. She has written and lectured on legal issues involving elder law, public benefits, disabilities, and workers' compensation. She is the Elder Law Clinic Supervising Attorney and Director of Professional Education at the Institute for Laws of Health and Aging, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento. |
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Admitted |
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Bar of the State of California, 1983
Certified Specialist in Workers’ Compensation |
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Education |
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Loyola Marymount University (J.D., 1983)
California State University (B.A., 1977) |
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Professional Memberships |
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- American Trial Lawyers Association, Work Place Litigation Group
- California Applicant Attorneys Association
- California Women Lawyers
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Publications |
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Co-author: Advising the Elderly or Disabled Client |
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Seminars and Appearances |
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- California Continuing Education of the Bar: numerous programs since 1983 addressing workers’ compensation, elder and disability law
- Developed: Legal Advocacy for the Welfare of Seniors, an annual training seminar and curriculum for non-lawyer advocates in Los Angeles County sponsored by Bet Tzedek Legal Services and the Los Angeles County Area Agency on Aging: 1983-present
- Speaker and Panelist at numerous State and County Bar programs addressing legal rights of seniors, disabled and injured workers: 1977-present
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In the News |
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Featured in “Top Lawyers in Sacramento,” Sacramento Magazine, April 1999 |
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