Re: LL.M degree will not get you bar admission

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I did read your post, and I quote:

"Actually, there are many of us who make upwards of 100K doing social security disability."

You said many of US. You wanted to imply you are a member of that class. I am a member of that class so I called BS.

You could have said there are many people who practice law in the area of SSA...

So in your dozen cases I presume you did not have to cross examine the government doctor as to his opinion at the hearing?

If so, how did you voir dire him? How did you deconstruct his conclusion using clinical evidence?

How did you establish credibility in your client and in the client's treating physicians?

What about the vocational expert? How did you keep his RFC evaluation out of evidence and get your own in?

How many doctors have you deposed?

Sounds like you may have had some luck with listings cases but what happens when you have a 42 year old ADHD bipolar
client with insufficient diagnosis who is not treating, and has recent onset fybromyalgia but can still type and sit for 8
hours? (Real case of mine - my client was awarded benefits)

I dont put adds in the paper or anywhere else - I do not advertise at all because my clients come to be from ABA grad
attorneys. When I get an easy listings case I don't even enter an appearance - I just help them organize their evidence
and help them submit it. They get benefits and are happy - I don't take a fee. They refer a lot of business to me. I do
the hard cases no one else wants.

While your limited exposre and perspective of SSA may very well be "monkey business" mine is not.

I'm not a naysayer. I am a successful DL law graduate and I have earned respect in the legal community from the kind of
lawyers who matter. I think DL is great.

I wish you the best success on your bar exam and your future practice wherever it takes you.

But you still are not yet qualified to talk about the complicated legal practice of SSA.

On 10/01/08, Crown Prince wrote:
> You are full of it.
>
> First, read my post. I NEVER said that I made a six figure income doing it. Pay attention to detail (you know, words!?!)
> For someone who represents others in court, you sure don't pay attention to written detail...
>
> I have only had about a dozen cases, and won most of them. Part time. Off of one classified ad in the LA times (paid
> about $500 for one month for all of the areas). Made nearly $25K for a total of less than a hundred hours of work
> (total). Thats the truth. Believe it. Honestly, when I pass the bar, I will probably do SS law if I don't move back to
> California. However, any monkey who can read the regs and send people to the right doctors can do it. If you are doing
it
> full time, and can't get fifty winning cases a year at an average of $2000 a piece, then YOU really don't know anything
> about it. The only reason I couldn't do it anymore is because I took a job with the federal government, and representing
> clients would be a conflict of interest (and against the law).
>
> If wasn't simultaneously working full time as a nurse, in my third year at WCSL (studying for the bar), finishing my
> second masters degree in education/teaching credential at Western Governor's University (8 units/term), producing a set
> of DVD's for the CLEP/AP History/Government Exams (I got an okay from the College Board to do this) and writing a book
> (while finding time somehow in between to see my wife and kids), then I could make six figures a year doing monkey
> business. I will make a lot more when I pass the bar. Eat my dust. (I am 27, by the way, how old are you???)
>
> I am growing tired of people being naysayers and putting other people down on this board. Can we please start getting to
> a proactive discussion of distance learning law schools and stop this petty crap?
>
> CP