Wai, Connor & Hamidzadeh, LLP
Christina Mandell is an experienced attorney currently serving at Wai & Connor, LLP since August 2016. Prior to this role, Christina practiced as an attorney at Samuelsen, Gonzalez, Valenzuela & Brown LLP from 2015 to 2016 and held the position of associate attorney at Michael Sullivan & Associates LLP between May 2013 and August 2015. Christina's career began at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP as an attorney from January 2011 to May 2013 and included a law clerk position at the Illinois Attorney General's Office in 2009. Additionally, Christina worked as a contract manager at Environmental Design International, Inc. from July 2004 to November 2008. Christina earned a Juris Doctor degree from DePaul University College of Law in 2009 following a Bachelor’s degree from Denison University, completed in 2006.
Wai, Connor & Hamidzadeh, LLP
Wai, Connor & Hamidzadeh, LLP specializes in the defense of workers’ compensation matters for both self-insured employers and insurance companies. The firm represents some of the most respected businesses and insurance companies in Southern California. Several of the firm’s former attorneys have been appointed workers’ compensation judges. The firm covers all of the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Boards throughout Southern California, from San Diego to Grover Beach. Our Northern California office is in Concord, located between San Francisco and Sacramento. From this office, we cover all of the Northern California Boards. Since its founding in 1997, the firm has specialized in the representation of large, self-insured employers (mainly Fortune 1000 companies) in defense of their Workers’ Compensation matters, as well as in defense of Labor Code §132a actions and claims for Serious and Willful Misconduct. The firm has been designated by many large employers as their exclusive counsel for Workers’ Compensation matters. Wai & Connor, LLP is also certified as a Minority Women Owned Business (“MBE/WBE”) by the County of Los Angeles and the California Public Utilities Commission.