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Kenneth Wong is a graduate of UC Berkeley. He received his Juris Doctorate from Santa Clara University.
Mr. Wong is going into his 25th year as a trial attorney in Workers' Compensation Defense in Southern California. Having initially developed his legal research, drafting, and presentation skills through his law school involvement in both Law Review and Moot Court, he has achieved a current total of 83 career "Take Nothings"—all involving case-in-chief (i.e., not inclusive of defense verdicts following lien trials).
A former partner with Allen, Rhodes & Sobelsohn, Mr. Wong describes a highly enjoyable career in which he has represented a full range of employers, including multi-state aerospace defense contractors, public school districts (including joint power authorities), counties, cities, law enforcement departments, public bus districts, restaurant chains, supermarket chains, trucking and transport companies, heavy-industry manufacturing factories, construction companies, building and materials suppliers, cattle ranches, meat packers, health spas, all manner of retailers, multi-state banks, and NFL teams. He's also earned a perfect record at the California Courts of Appeal, prevailing in cases before the three-judge panels (4th Appellate District, Division 2; 2nd Appellate District, Division 5). He likewise owns an unblemished trial record regarding LC section 132a and 4553 cases.
Mr. Wong's published case is Herrera v. WCAB (Hughes Aircraft Co.) (1995) 60 Cal. Comp. Cases 771, in which the California Supreme Court's Writ Denial affirmed the defense verdict of the trial judge, following the applicant bar's challenge to then-recent LC section 3208.3 (the Legislature's establishment of "a new and higher threshold of compensability for psychiatric injury").
A California resident for 43 years, Mr. Wong and his wife of 25 years have been blessed with four children, from age 24 down to 6½. He jokes that while he's oftentimes heard the three syllables—he has no idea of the meaning of the word "retirement." Although his Eagle-rank son years ago graduated from his troop and is soon to start medical school, Ken is now in his eleventh year serving as an Assistant Scoutmaster for Troop 90 (Newport Beach) of the Boy Scouts of America, assisting the boys in the Law merit badge and Firearms Safety and Rifle Marksmanship merit badges. His oldest daughter is a medical student at Northwestern University, and his second daughter is an undergraduate at Washington University in St. Louis. Their youngest daughter—the very happy first-grader—has Mr. Wong wrapped around her little finger.
Mr. Wong also happens to be the 1993 California State Table Tennis Champion, Singles Division. Of course, ping-pong being such a major spectator sport and TV-revenue generating activity, that state title earned him a nice, shiny trophy... and exactly zero dollars in prize money. Ken's friends and family have encouraged him to keep his day job.
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