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Re: LL.M degree will not get you bar admission
Posted by Get Real on 10/01/08

    another freaking west coast school of law idiot here !

    your "clients" are disabled twice, once by unfortunate
    circumstances and secondly by you DL graduate morons!

    On 10/01/08, .... wrote:
    > 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.
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    > 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

     
     

 
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