Hiring an attorney
You can represent yourself in your own disability case and you can also represent yourself at the hearing. However, examine the reasons you should consider hiring an attorney:
Your attorney knows the process and can speak on your behalf in a way that you may not know how to in order to win your case. You need someone with the skill to gather the evidence and argue it. I am experienced at arguing and so are my associates.
Extensive time is taken to gather information from you personally about your debilitating disorder(s). Your medical records need to be examined and understood. There is a great probability that your case will need to be argued before a judge who actually works for the Social Security Administration.
Over 70% of cases presented before the Social Security administration are denied whether you have an attorney or not, but the appeals process is where we have the skill to win.
Your medical records have to be examined. Any attorney can go to a hearing and say that someone is disabled because they have a particular illness, but it takes special skills and stamina to argue why your case is one that the Social Security Administration should consider disabling. You will be challenged thoroughly by the Social Security Administration and you may not have the skill or stamina to fight for yourself if you do not know the system well or you are not up to it because of your medical condition. Your attorney must know what information is pertinent to winning your case.
The Social Security Administration is not going to award you benefits just based on your claim of being disabled. You have to present some really hard core evidence to be granted disability benefits. If not, the social security benefits budget would be depleted by now.
do I offer?
I am Howard W. Bowen, and I am an attorney with over 30 years of experience in the field of law.
I have practiced before the Social Security Administration for over 20 years.
I will fight to the end for the benefits that you deserve.
Challenges will be thrown your way, but I will be there with you the entire time.
What You Can Expect
My office will give you the very best we can offer. Not only do you get an attorney, you get a person who prepares you for the pitfalls in the hearing process. I will prepare you for what you want to say, examine any witness presented by the Social Security Administration, and present your case in the most favorable light.
In general, I will prepare and present you in the most favorable atmosphere to win.