Here is a selection of recent posts from the Social Security disability blogs:
I can hardly believe that this week we will be 3/4 through the year 2010. It has been quite a year for me so far, and my baby daughter Bridget is now 5 months old.
Here are is a selection of the best articles from this site for the past three months, in
I had the privilege of presenting a workshop at the Fall Conference for the National Organization of Social Security Claimants' Representatives (NOSSCR) in Chicago.
The workshop was Ten Tips for Writing Effective Hearing Briefs for the ALJ. My presentation also included Ten Reasons to Write a Hearing Brief and a sample hearing brief.
Presenting
Seventh Circuit Judge David Hamilton, the first judicial appointment of President Obama, addressed the full NOSSCR Conference on Thursday morning.
Judge Hamilton stated that empathy is essential to good judging and good lawyering. Judge Hamilton stated that finding facts fairly, and applying the law to those facts, requires empathy. As an example, the judge recently
The Eileen P. Sweeney Distinguished Service Award was presented this morning at the NOSSCR Fall Conference by Troy Rosasco, Esq.
The recipients of the award are Charles Hall, Esq. and David Travers, Esq. It is a well deserved honor for each.
In addition to many other accomplishments, both of these gentlemen have published books on
I will be attending the Fall NOSSCR Conference in Chicago this week. I will arrive on Wednesday and will be leaving Saturday morning. If you will be at the conference, please say hello.
I will be presenting a workshop on Friday at 9:45 AM entitled "Ten Tips for Writing Effective Hearing Briefs for the ALJ
The Honorable Vickie Evans will be joining the Portland, Maine ODAR as a new administrative law judge. Prior to becoming a judge, Ms. Evans was a Senior Attorney Advisor at the Delaware hearing office. Prior to that, she represented claimants before the Social Security Administration in the Atlanta area for about 7 years. We welcome
Here is a selection of recent notable posts from the Social Security disability blogs.
If you are a Social Security disability lawyer, please join the conversation in the comments of my post below ("Medical Source Statements vs. Functional Capacity Evaluations") and tell me what you do to obtain opinions from your clients' treating physicians.
An excellent article by reporter John Leland, entitled Retiring Later is Hard Road for Laborers, appeared this week in the New York Times.
In the context of the current debate about raising the Social Security retirement age, Mr. Leland wrote about the difficulties faced by aging workers in labor-intensive jobs. He related
I send a medical source statement to the claimant's doctor in pretty much every case, because it is the most powerful evidence available of the claimant's functional limitations. Social Security's rules put the opinions of treating physicians at the top of the hierarchy of medical evidence. See 20 CFR 404.1527(d) and Social Security Ruling