Karen L. Locke
Executive Director

Karen L. Locke is the Executive Director of the California Applicants' Attorneys Association.

Mrs. Locke began overseeing the California Applicants' Attorneys Association in 1987 when she was appointed executive director.

Julie L. Chavez
Director of Education

v: (916) 444-5155
f: (916) 444-0661
e: jchavez@caaa.org

 Responsibilities:

• Conventions
  • Speaker Liaison
  • Syllabus Content Coordinator
• Seminars
  • Speaker Liaison
  • Syllabus Content Coordinator
  • Event Coordinator
• Accreditation
• • Legal Specialization
  • DWC - Medical Credit
  • MCLE
• CAAA Historian
• Committee Conference Calls
• Education Coordination

Isabel Pires
Director of Technology & Marketing

v: (916) 444-5155
f: (916) 444-0661
e: bel@caaa.org

 Responsibilities:

• CAAA's Website Administrator
  • Deposition Bank / Practice Tips
  • Website Advertising
  • Online Membership Directory
• Conventions
  • Exhibit Booths and Welcome Reception Coordinator
  • Eugene Marias Awards Dinner Reception 
  • Advertising / Marketing / Sponsorship
  • Education Liaison
• All Statewide List Services (Lawnet) Administrator
• Annual Steven H. Spindel Golf Classic and Casino Night 
  • Sponsorship and Registration
  • Billing
• Northern California Wine and Golf Classic
  • Sponsorship and Registration
  • Billing
• Injured Workers' Consumer Information for Spanish Speaking
• Online Education Access and Confirmations  

Andrea W. Robertson
Membership, Amicus and 899 Committees

v: (916) 444-5155
f: (916) 444-0661
e: arobertson@caaa.org
voicemail: (916) 491-6685

Responsibilities:

• Amicus Reports
• 899 Committee Liaison
• Requests
  • Amicus Curiae
  • Letter in Support
  • Publication/Depublication
• Membership
  • Database Updates
  • Dues
  • Recruitments and Retentio
• Political Fundraisers
  • Event Liaison
  • Invitations
  • Contribution Collection and Recording
• CAAA-PAC (Political Action Committee)
  • CAAA-SCC (Small Contributor Committee)
  • CAAA Workers' Compensation Issues PAC

Nathalie Leplat
Receptionist - Bookstore and Convention Hotel Reservations

Responsibilities:

• Convention Hotel Reservations
• Membership Information & Educational Registration Details
• Contact for MCLE research
• Injured Workers' Consumer Information Phone Line
• Injured Workers' Attorney Search List
• Educational Materials & Publication Orders
  • Convention Audio & Syllabus
  • Seminar Audio & Syllabus
  • Impairment Rating Manuals
  • Practice Tips
  • AMA Guides
  • "Pearls" of the AMA Guides to the Evaulation of Permanent Impairment 5th Edition

Responsibilities:

• Conventions
  • Registrations & Confirmation letters
  • Eugene Marias Awards Dinner Reservations
  • Exhibit Booths and Welcome Reception Assistant Coordinator
  • Billing
• Seminars 
  • Registrations & Confirmation letters
  • Registration for Online Programs
  • Billing

Erica Ferrier

Chapter Liaison

v: (916) 444-5155
f: (916) 444-0661
email: erica@caaa.org

Responsibilities:

• CAAA's Statewide Chapters
  • Financial Fiscal Reports
  • Chapter Notices
  • All Chapter Banking including payables 
  • Convention CDs & Syllabus
  • MCLE Credit Forms
  • Chapter President's Annual Retreat Coordinator
  • Monthly Chapter President Conference Call Moderator
• CAAA Website Calendar Updates