Here are links to recent notable posts from the Social Security disability blogs:
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I am pleased to announce that attorney Collette Cushing has joined my disability practice. Like me, Collette practices exclusively in the area of Social Security disability. Collette has prepared and conducted hundreds of Social Security hearings in Maine and New Hampshire. She will be involved with all aspects of the practice.
Collette Cushing attended Bowdoin College, where…
I will be the first to say that I am not a fan the “national” social security claimant representative firms. I think claimants are often not well served by such firms, and many claimants do not realize that the “advocates” they hire are not necessarily attorneys.
I have written about these topics before. See…
Here is a selection of recent posts from the Social Security disability blogs:
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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…
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…
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.
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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…
