Does your Social Security Disability attorney properly prepare for the hearing?
The typical process involves months to years of preparation for hearing.
However, to keep things simpler for this blog post, we will let you know the types of things that we do in the final month before the hearing.
For example, they make sure that all the medical records are updated. In addition, they make sure that all residual functional capacity forms are completed by doctors and returned to their office. These forms are crucial because they address what the claimant can or can’t do.
In addition, they prepare a brief. The purpose of the brief is to simplify the case for the administrative law judge and for the client.
In the brief, they address the objective medical evidence, address what surgical procedures have been done, and they address the functional capacity of their client, aka the fact that they are unable to work.
Shortly before the hearing-typically a day or two beforehand, they have a conference with the client to prepare them for the hearing process and to make sure they have a clear understanding of how things work.
They then meet the day of the hearing as well to make sure any final questions or issues are addressed.
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