Programs Powell & Denny helped start
Powell & Denny helped start the Alabama Workers' Compensation Annual Seminar and has chaired or helped chair it numerous times. The seminar is important because Alabama workers' compensation changes through statutes, court decisions, medical practice, insurance practice, and trial-court experience.
For an injured worker, that matters because the law is not just a form. Real cases often turn on medical treatment, return-to-work proof, restrictions, wage loss, FCE results, vocational issues, and settlement structure.
Presented, chaired, or moderated
This section is for programs where Gregory T. Denny, William V. Powell, Jr., or Powell & Denny chaired, helped chair, moderated, presented, or helped organize the program.
- Alabama Workers' Compensation Annual Seminar.
- Birmingham Bar Association Workers' Compensation Section programs.
- Breakfast with the Judges programs.
- ALAJ Workers' Compensation Section programs.
- Programs on Social Security Disability issues that overlap with Alabama work-injury cases.
- Programs on mediation, medical proof, FCEs, MMI, restrictions, retaliatory discharge, return to work, and settlement issues.
To add later: date, title, sponsor, role, short topic summary, and any public link or PDF the firm has permission to post.
Attended and studied
This page can also list CLEs and seminars the firm attended. Those entries should be labeled as attended, not presented. That keeps the page accurate while showing continuing study.
Suggested format:
- Program: name of the CLE or seminar.
- Date: month and year.
- Role: attended, presented, chaired, moderated, or helped organize.
- Topic: the practical issue for injured workers.
- Why it matters: one plain sentence explaining how the topic helps in real cases.
Core workers' compensation topics
The library addresses practical topics including:
- What MMI means and what it does not mean.
- Why an FCE can change the settlement value of a case.
- How permanent restrictions affect return-to-work proof.
- Why denied medical treatment can be a serious red flag.
- How Social Security Disability issues can overlap with workers' compensation.
- Why work-related truck and car accidents are five alarm fires.
- What mediation can and cannot solve in a workers' compensation case.
Why CLEs and seminars matter
Workers' compensation is practical law. Injured workers need lawyers who understand the medical records, wage records, job duties, restrictions, hearings, mediation, and disability issues. CLEs and seminars show that the lawyers are still studying, teaching, and working in the subject.
This page is not meant to brag. It is meant to make the site's background easier to check and easier to understand.