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

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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:
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> "Actually, there are many of us who make upwards of 100K doing social security disability."
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> 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.
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> You could have said there are many people who practice law in the area of SSA...
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> So in your dozen cases I presume you did not have to cross examine the government doctor as to his opinion at the hearing?
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> If so, how did you voir dire him? How did you deconstruct his conclusion using clinical evidence?
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> How did you establish credibility in your client and in the client's treating physicians?
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> What about the vocational expert? How did you keep his RFC evaluation out of evidence and get your own in?
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> How many doctors have you deposed?
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> 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)
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> 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.
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> While your limited exposre and perspective of SSA may very well be "monkey business" mine is not.
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> 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.
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> I wish you the best success on your bar exam and your future practice wherever it takes you.
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> 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.
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>> 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...
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>> 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
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>> 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).
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>> 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???)
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>> 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?
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>> CP