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• Training and managing paralegal and legal assistant staff• Drafting and responding to correspondence from the Social Security Administration• Preparing and filing individual disability claims• Defining and developing legal policies and procedures• Drafting and reviewing contracts with service providers and internal policies in accordance with all applicable regulations• Conducting research and reviewing transactions to ensure maximum benefit to the company with minimal risk• Monitoring changes to administrative, disability and elder law at federal, state, and national levels

• Managed disability cases through all steps of the Social Security disability process including:• the preparation and filing of individual claims• representing claimants at the hearing level• drafting comments for cases at the Appeals Council level

• Managed disability cases through all steps of the Social Security disability process including:• the preparation and filing of individual claims• representing claimants at the hearing level• drafting comments for cases at the Appeals Council level

• Managed disability cases through all steps of the Social Security disability process including:• the preparation and filing of individual claims• representing claimants at the hearing level• drafting comments for cases at the Appeals Council level• preparing briefs for cases at the Federal District Court level

• Civil litigation focused primarily on account collections, foreclosure, real estate and contracts law Independently managed hundreds of collections cases through all steps of the legal process including: • the preparation and filing of individual lawsuits • drafting and responding to discovery requests • defending clients against suits and counterclaims related to collection actions • conducting settlement negotiations on behalf of the client • pursuing cases through to judgment