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May 2021
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Life as a Catastrophic and Brain Injury ...

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Send us a text This week on the Legally Speaking Podcast, Robert Hanna speaks to Tina Odjaghian. Tina is a US-based attorney who runs Odjaghian Law Group, which specialises in workers' compensation litigation, with an emphasis on brain injury related litigation and industrial catastrophic injuries. The firm has seen strong recent growth, and now employs a ... Show More
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