Joshua Potter will be addressing  Dr. Kim’s  graduate class of rehabilitation students on September 25. The topic of the day is The Disability Rights Community & Disability Issues in a Global Context. We will look at life beyond rehabilitation: what happens if nothing happens? Every case is not a success story. Social Security disability may need […]

Joshua Potter will be presenting a one hour Ethics class at the September 15 NOSSCR national conference for Social Security Disability representatives in Scottsdale Arizona. He will be joined by legal malpractice expert Stephen Ball. The new  medical standard in which the judge need not explain how he weighed the medical evidence will be considered. This single […]

Social Security will be implementing a rule change that eliminates the presumption of correctness regarding the opinion of the treating physician. Under the new rules, a judge can adopt any medical opinion, no matter how unqualified, even without a review of the medical records! The judge does not have to weight or explain why he […]

Eliot Samulon addressed west coast Social Security disability lawyers (“the Ninth Circuit Conference”) on January 28, 2017 regarding Social Security’s new rules for evaluating whether mental health conditions are considered disabling. Knowing these complex new rules will be very helpful to claimants with mental problems. For example, Social Security is now considering records from licensed […]

Joshua Potter spoke at the November national Social Security disability conference in Seattle. His topic, “ Photographic Evidence” was well received by a large , enthusiastic audience of attorneys. Through the use of examples, and exercises, the attendees were able to see firsthand how many of the diseases identified in Appendix 1 of the Regulations […]