Attorney Profiles
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Sandra A. Day
Sandra A. Day is a founding partner in the law firm of Day Kavanaugh. She is a certified specialist in worker compensation, with 20 years of work experience in this field of expertise. She has been both an administrative law judge and Chief Counsel for the Industrial Commission of Arizona. A member of the State Bar Worker Compensation Section, she worked for several years as a staff attorney for the State Compensation Fund. Ms. Day was a law clerk at the Arizona Supreme Court. She has thirteen years of professional work experience as a nonpartisan attorney for the Arizona Legislature. Ms. Day also has experience in unemployment insurance law as a former appeal tribunal at the Department of Economic Security. Ms. Day regularly practices administrative law before the Industrial Commission of Arizona and has litigated involved appellate matters before the Court of Appeals and the Arizona Supreme Court. She has extensive legislative experience and actively participates in legislative advocacy activities. She also represents persons in seeking to establish entitlement to Social Security Disability. She is a sustaining member of the National Organization of Social Security Claimants' Representatives and belongs to the Workplace Injury Litigation Group. She performs contract mediation services on equal employment opportunity matters for the U.S. Postal Service and has represented school district employees in disciplinary and termination matters.
Ms. Day has undergraduate and graduate degrees from Arizona State University and is a graduate from the University of Arizona College Of Law (1967). She has substantial formal training as a mediator and is a certified mediation trainer. She has lectured on legislation, employment law, worker compensation and alternative dispute resolution at conferences and seminars conducted by the State Bar of Arizona, Maricopa County Bar Association, the Industrial Commission of Arizona, Council on Education in Management, the Labor Community Council, the National Business Institute, Inc and the U.S. Department of Labor. She is a member of the Labor and Employment Law and the Alternative Dispute Resolution Sections of the Arizona State Bar Association and a board member of the East Valley Bar Association. She was a participant in the State Bar Worker Compensation Handbook project. She has authored pamphlets and articles on worker compensation law. She has served as a Judge Pro Tempore for the Arizona Court of Appeals. Dennis P. Kavanaugh Dennis P. Kavanaugh is a founding partner in the law firm of Day Kavanaugh. He has extensive background in worker compensation law. Certified by the State Bar of Arizona as a specialist in worker compensation, he was formerly Chief Counsel of the Industrial Commission of Arizona. In this position, he supervised Commission staff attorneys and
provided representation and defense of the Industrial Commission Special Fund before administrative law judges, the Superior Court, the Arizona Court of Appeals and the Arizona Supreme Court. Mr. Kavanaugh has drafted worker compensation legislation, rules of procedure, and has represented the Industrial Commission before the Arizona Legislature. He has lectured on worker compensation law for the State Bar of Arizona, the Arizona Self-Insurers Association, the Arizona Trial Lawyers Association and the Annual Industrial Commission Claims Seminar. Mr. Kavanaugh is a member of the worker compensation section of the State Bar of Arizona, the St. Thomas More Society and the East Valley Bar Association. Mr. Kavanaugh served as an attorney for the Arizona Legislative Council from 1978 through 1984, drafting legislation in the areas of municipal law, public finance and administration, and worker compensation. Mr. Kavanaugh also was employed as an associate for the law firm of Stephens, Watts, Day & Brown from 1988 through 1990. He received his J.D. degree in 1978 from Arizona State University and a B.A. in Political Science (magna cum laude) from St. Louis University in 1975. Mr. Kavanaugh was awarded memberships in Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Sigma Nu (National Jesuit Honor Society). He has been active in Mesa community affairs. He is an elected member of the Mesa City Council and is currently serving in that capacity. |