Chancy Croft
Workers Compensation Lawyer, The Crofts Law Firm
Workers Compensation Lawyer in Anchorage, AK
I drove the Alaska Highway in my 1955 Mercury, which a friend nick-named “the Mercury Space Capsule” from Odessa, Texas to Alaska in 1962. I have never looked back. In 1963 I married a brilliant and beautiful Texas lady and we took one of the initial runs of the Alaska Ferry system from Prince Rupert, British Columbia, to Alaska. She is a professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Now we have 3 grown children and 7 grand children. I earned my law degree from the University of Texas School of Law in 1961 and have been licensed in Alaska since 1964. I was the Democratic nominee for Governor in 1978. That year there were more people running for Governor than salmon in Ship Creek. The voters seemed to say that quite a few people were qualified to be Governor but what was in short supply was a really good attorney representing injured workers. When no one else volunteered, in early 1979 I started helping people with work related injuries. I haven’t stopped.
Over the years I have argued before the Alaska Supreme Court more than 60 times, have appeared before the Alaska Workers’ Compensation Board 100’s of times, testified before the legislature a dozen or so times about workers compensation legislation and have been to the Chicken Capital of the World - Gainesville, Georgia - once to depose 2 doctors in a workers compensation case. I wrote an article about vocational rehabilitation that appeared in the Duke University Law Review and have conducted every session of the Alaska Bar Association’s continuing legal education program on workers compensation for the last 15 years. My staff and I understand the complexities of the Alaska workers’ compensation system. We strive to treat every client with the respect he/she deserves. Jami Gartner has been with the Crofts Law Office since 2001, Patty Jones began in 1990 and Brenda Lynn Marlow started while she was still in high school in 1977. Together they bring over 50 years of legal experience to helping injured workers. And not one of them looks a day over 25.
Downtown, Alaska United States
