Choosing a North Carolina State Bar Board Certified Workers’ Compensation attorney is the only way to ensure you have a true expert or “specialist” in the field of Workers’ Compensation. All attorneys who handle workers’ compensation cases are not specialists. Specialists must meet specific rigorous criteria and testing in order to be called a “specialist” by the North Carolina State Bar. Being a specialist places the attorney in an elite field in the particular area of the law for which they are certified.