After finishing Law School in 1975, Mr. Cartozian began in private practice as a General Practitioner for a period of about 10 years in the Sacramento area. Areas of practice at that time included family law, adoptions, criminal defense, Bankruptcy, personal injury, corporate and business transactions, juvenile matters, wills, probate, collections, mechanics liens, etc. In 1985 he became associated with Industrial Indemnity – House Counsel and focused his concentration on the defense of workers compensation claims, workers compensation subrogation, defense of 132a and Serious and Willful Misconduct claims. After 10 years he opened his private practice with a partner and continued the same type work. From 1997 to 2007 he was associated with and became a partner with the workers compensation defense law firm of Gray & Prouty. Mr. Cartozian has been with the FS&K law firm since October 2007.
   Mr. Cartozian thus brings with him a 10 year general practice background and over 27 years of workers compensation defense experience where his clients have included insurance companies, third party administrators, private employers, school districts, and public agencies. He has made presentations on a variety of topics in the workers compensation arena to groups of varying size and experience.
   Mr. Cartozian is licensed to practice before all state Courts of the State of California, has appeared at most of the Workers Compensation Appeals Board District Offices in California, and in June 2005 was admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.

   Victoria Alexeeva is an associate attorney with the Law Offices of Floyd, Skeren & Kelly, LLP in our firm’s Oakland location. Ms. Alexeeva earned her Undergraduate Degree in Political Science and French from Santa Clara University in 1999 and received a Juris Doctorate Degree in 2003 from Golden Gate University School of Law.
   Prior to joining Floyd, Skeren & Kelly, LLP in 2008, Ms. Alexeeva has worked as an in-house counsel for approximately four years representing Liberty Mutual Insurance Company and its policy holders in workers’ compensation and civil litigation matters. Ms. Alexeeva currently represents employers, insurance companies, self-insured entities and uninsured employers in all matters before the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB) including standard defense litigation, 132a discrimination claims and serious and willful misconduct allegations. Ms. Alexeeva is fluent in Russian, Ukranian and speaks conversational French. Ms. Alexeeva also has a published article in the Cardoza Women’s Law Journal.