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1. Social Security Disability: Get the Basics Down
2. Prepare and Analyze Information Before the Hearing
3. Succeed at the Administrative Law Judge Hearing
4. Resolve Ethical Issues in Your Practice
5. Handle Special Issues As They Arise

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1. SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY: GET THE BASICS DOWN
   9:00 - 10:15, Keith R. Lyman
   1. Untangle Recent Changes to the Social Security Disability Program
   2. Examine Significant Rulings That Threaten Your Success
   3. Determine the Different Types of Disability Cases
   4. Grasp Important Definitions of Abbreviations and Acronyms
   5. Sort Through Medical and Vocational Issues (including use of the “GRID”)
   6. Identify Remedies Available Under ERISA
   7. Tap Into All the Resources Available to You
2. PREPARE AND ANALYZE INFORMATION BEFORE THE HEARING
   10:30 - 12:00, Keith R. Lyman
   1. How to Decide Whether to Accept or Decline Representation of the Client
   2. Medical and Other Essential Evidence You Must Gather
   3. Obtain Necessary Reports and Interrogatories
   4. Analyze Social Security File Documentation
   5. How to File a Claim
   6. Prepare Clients to Effectively Testify
   7. Tips for Establishing the Claim
   8. Avoid Mistakes with Ready-to-Use Forms and Letters
3. SUCCEED AT THE ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE HEARING
   1:00 - 2:30, Amy Foster
   1. Great Advice for Working With the Local Hearing Office
   2. A Practical Hearing Checklist You'll Use Over and Over
   3. How to Handle Expert Witnesses – Yours and Your Opponents
   4. Follow the Rules for Submitting Evidence to the Letter
   5. Documenting and Presenting Medical and Vocational Evidence
   6. Difficulties to Expect and How to Handle Them
   7. Proven Tactics That Can Lead to a Favorable Ruling
   8. Guard Against Costly Errors When Calculating Benefits
   9. How Benefits Received Impact Other Recoveries
   10. Breakthrough Misconceptions About the Appeals Process
4. RESOLVE ETHICAL ISSUES IN YOUR PRACTICE
   2:45 - 3:45, Amy Foster
   1. Be on the Lookout for Conflicts of Interest
   2. Useful Tips for Setting Attorneys' Fees
   3. What to Do to Ensure Confidentiality
   4. Forge a Solid Attorney/Client Relationship
5. HANDLE SPECIAL ISSUES AS THEY ARISE
   3:45 - 4:30, Amy Foster
   1. Litigating a Childhood Disability Case? Here's What to Know
   2. Troubleshoot Non-Disability Issues Arising From Disability Claims
   3. De-Mystify the Relationship Between Medicare and Social Security
   4. The Social Security Disability Relation to Other Ongoing Cases - Be On Alert!

AMY FOSTER is one of the founders of Foster & Meyerson, Attorneys at Law, where she focuses her practice on Social Security disability. Ms. Foster received her B.A. degree, with honors, in psychology from the University of Pittsburgh. She received her J.D. degree from the University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law. Ms. Foster is licensed to practice in the state of Arizona. She became an assistant attorney general for the Arizona Attorney General's Office in 2008, representing the Arizona State Board of Nursing. Ms. Foster serves on the Area Agency on Aging Board for the Doves Program and donates her time to Reading for the Blind and Dyslexic in Phoenix and volunteering with the Mother Bear Project.

KEITH R. LYMAN joined the law firm of Frazer Ryan Goldberg & Arnold LLP, in 2008. As an estate planning attorney, Mr. Lyman focuses his practice on estate planning and long-term care planning, including Medicaid eligibility and asset protection, along with the use of special needs trusts. He also is a certified financial planner, having earned his designation in 1996. Mr. Lyman practiced law in Indiana for 27 years with a practice focused on estate planning and long-term care planning. He graduated from Washburn University School of Law in 1977, and is licensed to practice law in Kansas, Indiana and Arizona. He also is a member in good standing of the Arizona State Bar Association and the National Association of Elder Law Attorneys. Mr. Lyman is the author of Teach Yourself Estate Planning in 24 Hours, published by Pearson Education, a division of Macmillan Publishing; and The Strategy of Long-Term Care - How Middle and Upper Middle Class America Qualifies for Medicaid, published by Brooke-Matthews Publishing Co., Inc. He also is the technical editor of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Wills and Estates, published by Pearson Education; and technical editor of Personal Financial Planning Guide, also published by Pearson Education.

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