Brian Clymer is an attorney who represents injured workers in workers' compensation cases and Social Security disability cases. He graduated with high distinction from the University of Virginia in 1975 with a double major in speech and government and received his law degree from the University of Arizona in 1978, graduating in the top 10% of his class. He has been licensed to practice law in the state of Arizona since October 7, 1978 and is admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona as well as the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He is a certified specialist in Workers' Compensation law by the Arizona Board of Legal Specialization since 1983 and has won cases before the Arizona Court of Appeals and the Arizona Supreme Court on a variety of issues including heart attacks caused by emotional stress, hearing loss from gradual noise exposure, exposure to pesticides, and gradual injury claims for muscular conditions. Brian is a contributing writer to two chapters of the Arizona Workers Compensation Handbook, published by the State Bar of Arizona. He is a past member of the Arizona Trial Lawyers Board of Directors; past secretary and past co-chairman of the Workers' Compensation Section of the State Bar of Arizona, and past chairman of the Southern Arizona Workers' Compensation Claimants' Attorneys' Association. Brian served as a member of the Industrial Committee of Arizona's Ad Hoc Advisory Committee which looked into ways to improve the hearing process, and he has also appeared before committees of the Arizona state legislature to advocate for improvements in our workers' compensation system. Brian has been listed since 1995 in The Best Lawyers in America for the area of workers' compensation law, and has an AV rating in Martindale-Hubbell legal directory.

Areas of Practice

• Social Security -- Disability
• Workers' Compensation Law

Litigation Percentage

• 100% of Practice Devoted to Litigation

Bar Admissions

• Arizona, 1978
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit, 1980
• U.S. District Court District of Arizona, 1978

Education

• University of Arizona College of Law, Tucson, Arizona, 1978
  J.D.
  Honors: With High Distinction
  
  
• University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1975
  B.A.
  Honors: Intermediate Honors
  Honors: High Distinction
  Major: Government
  Major: Speech
  
  

Representative Cases

• Saylor v. Industrial Commission, 831 P. 2d 847 ( 1992)
• Mace v. Industrial Commission, 62 P. 3d 133 ( 2003)
• Lane v. Industrial Commission, 178 P.3d 516 ( 2008)

Representative Clients

• United Food And Commercial Workers Local 99

Classes/Seminars Taught

• Workers Compensation Law to Union Counselors Program, Southern Arizona Central Labor Council, 1999 - 2001
• Workers Compensation and Social Security Disability to the People's Law School, Arizona Trial Lawyers Association, 1991
• Workers Compensation and Social Security Disability to the People's Law School, Arizona Trial Lawyers Association, 1991 - 1999

Honors and Awards

• The Best Lawyers in America (Workers Comp), 1995 - 2008

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Our Saviour's Lutheran Church
  Church Council President, 1987 - 1988, 2003 - 2005
  
  
• Our Saviour's Lutheran Church
  Church Council Member 1986 - 1991, 2001 - 2005
  
  
• Pima County Bar Association, 1978 - 2008
  
  
• National Organization of Social Security Claimants' Representatives, 1980 - Present
  
  
• Southern Arizona Workers' Compensation Claimants' Attorneys' Association, 1981 - Present
  Past President
  
  
• Arizona Trial Lawyers' Association
  Affinity Member
  
  

Past Employment Positions

• Tretschok, McNamara & Clymer, P.C., Shareholder, 1981 - 1996
• Law Offices of Dale Tretschok, Associate, 1979 - 1981

Birth Information

• March 22, 1953, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America