Kurt Matthew Young

Kurt is one of the first Ohio State Bar Association Board  Certified Specialists in Ohio Workers' Compensation Law. In 2005. 2006 and 2007, Law and Politics Magazine named Kurt Young as an Ohio Super Lawyer Rising Star (recognizing him as one of the Top 2.5 % of Ohio's attorneys in the area of

Ohio Workers' Compensation Law under the age of 40 or with

less than 10 years in the practice of law).

He has argued over 6,000 hearings before all levels of the Industrial Commission of Ohio and has litigated cases before various Courts of Common Pleas and District Courts of Appeals throughout Ohio and has over a dozen published Court of Appeals and  Ohio Supreme Court decisions.

 Kurt has been an adjunct instructor of Administrative Law (Social Security Disability and Workers' Compensation) at Stautzenberger College in Toledo and his firm still serves as an externship site for this program.  He also regularly presents to the Legal Assisting Program at the University of Toledo as well.

He is the President of the Northwest Ohio Claimant's Attorneys, Past Chair of the Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers, now known as Ohio Association for Justice, Workers' Compensation Executive Committee, Past Ohio Captain of the Work Injury Law & Advocacy Group (national

workers' compensation attorneys organization) and a member of the Ohio State Bar Association Workers' Compensation Committee, American Association for Justice Work Place Injury Committee, and The Toledo Bar Association Workers' Compensation Committee.

Kurt has presented seminar topics to the Toledo Bar Association Yearly Workers' Compensation Seminar and Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers Fall and Summer Seminars, serving as co-moderator for all 2005-2007

Kurt is also a member of Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity International

(where is the former Justice of the John Hay and Cleveland Alumni

Chapters and former District XIV District Justice)), Phi Kappa Psi

(social fraternity), and Omicron Delta Kappa (national leadership

honorary).