For the fourth year in a row, LexisNexis has published its marvelous yearbook, the Workers’ Compensation Emerging Issues Analysis. Edited, as before, by Thomas Robinson and Robin Kobayashi, it is divided into two parts – the first a collection of essays, mostly concerning the field as a whole; and the second reporting on critical legal issues, statutory and regulatory developments, and essential court cases.
Plainly this is the best annual one can buy on workers’ compensation. If you’re like me, you’ll pore over – and then devour – this 324-page manual just like you did when, as a kid, the Sears Christmas Wish Book arrived in the mail.
I’ve submitted for many years that the best workers’ compensation lawyers view the system broadly, in all its aspects, and stay cognizant of developments on a national level. Nothing is more jarring for me than encountering the lawyer who is uninformed about items like workers’ compensation insurance and alternative approaches to workplace injury – like the Texas system!
On this precise point, the book’s contributor of a summary on the Rutgers Demise of the Grand Bargain seminar has this alarming thing to say about our field: “[T]here is perhaps no more practical, and less theoretical quotidian legal specialty than workers’ compensation, with its arcane practices rooted in oral tradition and habit. A truly national, holistic vision is difficult ….”
But there’s no reason for such self-loathing …. This is the book that will help the reader achieve a broad understanding and that elusive “holistic vision.” Whatever you do … don’t miss it! To order: http://www.lexisnexis.com/store/catalog/booktemplate/productdetail.jsp?pageName=relatedProducts&skuId=sku8841495&catId=52&prodId=prod19890471.