STEWART N. BOXER has been engaged in the practice of law since 1968 and has been qualified by the State of California as a Certified Specialist in Workers' Compensation since 1973. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the California Applicants' Attorneys' Association, a statewide organization made up of attorneys representing injured workers in California, and has lectured on numerous occasions to attorneys and local labor unions on the subject of workers' compensation. He graduated from Fordham University Law School in 1965 and was a Case Note Editor on the Fordham Law Review and a member of the Honorary Legal Society at the University. In 1966 he was a law clerk for Justice Byrl R. Salsman of the California Court of Appeals.