Alfred J. Carlson

Alfred Carlson is the managing partner at Martin Law and has been duly sworn to practice law in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Mr. Carlson is a graduate of Villanova University, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1992 with a joint JD/MBA degree.

Mr. Carlson is the immediate past President of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers’ Association. He currently serves as the chair of the Nominating Committee and has been an executive board member since 2010. In 2008, he served as co-Chair of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Workers’ Compensation Section.

Al has been a litigator in Pennsylvania workers’ compensation law since passing the bar in 1992 and joined his partners at Martin Law in 2000 to represent injured workers. He previously practiced at a leading defense firm in Philadelphia, representing international corporations, major insurance companies, and state and local government agencies in Pennsylvania workers’ compensation cases. In the spring of 2013, Mr. Carlson was among the first class of attorneys to become a certified specialist in Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation by the PA Bar Association’s Section on Workers’ Compensation Law as authorized by the PA Supreme Court.* 

Late in 2014, a groundbreaking decision was handed down in a case represented by Mr. Carlson: The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court issued an affirmative ruling on a case it previously denied in 2011 after the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania vacated that first decision earlier in 2014. The ruling now awards Al’s client, a former liquor store manager, benefits for the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) he suffered when his store was robbed at gunpoint. This case was heavily covered by the press, featuring the reoccurring quote from Al, “This decision is important for expanding the ‘Payes’ ruling to retail and service workers across the state. ” 

The law practice of Martin Law LLC consists of Fourteen attorneys who limit their practice to representing injured workers in Pennsylvania and Social Security Disability claims. Mr. Carlson is a member of the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers and is an author and lecturer on workers’ compensation matters. He presently represents over 400 injured workers and disabled individuals.