About Zachary Sacks

After graduating from Yale University and Columbia Law School, and after a tour of duty with the United States Marine Corps, Zachary H. Sacks, the firm’s managing partner, came to California in 1963. Since that time, he has been active in all phases of workers’ compensation law. He has successfully represented clients from the trial level all the way to the California Supreme Court. He has been instrumental in legislative activities concerning workers’ compensation law and has testified in the State Capitol before legislative sub-committees on workers’ compensation issues on behalf of both clients of the firm, as well as organizations which he has headed in his long career in California.

He holds the distinction of being the only two-time elected President in the 30-plus year history of the Southern California Workers’ Compensation Defense Attorneys Association, and he was the first and founding President of the Statewide Attorneys Association called the California Workers’ Compensation Defense Attorneys Association in 1982 to 1983. He is only the 4th recipient in the 24-year history of the California Workers’ Compensation Defense Attorneys Association of the prestigious Warren L. Hanna Lifetime Achievement Award, conferred by his peers in May 2004.

He is a prolific author and sought-after lecturer, having first lectured to new admittees to the California Bar on workers’ compensation law in 1973. Since that time, he has been an annual featured speaker for multiple organizations and at multiple industry conventions throughout the state of California and across the country. He has been a featured speaker at the California Applicant Attorneys Association, the California Workers’ Compensation Defense Attorneys Association, the California Manufacturers’ Association, and the California Self-Insurance Association, and a teacher and seminar instructor on various topics in workers’ compensation law for the firm’s highly acclaimed workers’ compensation training seminars for attorneys and clients as well as functioning as a guest teacher of Workers’ Compensation law at UCLA Law School.