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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, Ivan M. Katz
   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. Tap into All the Resources Available to You
2. PREPARE AND ANALYZE INFORMATION BEFORE THE HEARING
   10:30 - 11:45, Jeffrey C. Nicholas
   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
   12:45 - 2:15, Ivan M. Katz and Jeffrey C. Nicholas
   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
   2:30 - 3:30, Ivan M. Katz
   1. Social Security Regulations Involving Ethics
   2. Setting Fees - Two Tiered Agreements and Federal Court Contracts
   3. Maintaining Confidentiality
   4. Withdrawals - How, Why, When and in What Manner
5. HANDLE SPECIAL ISSUES AS THEY ARISE
   3:30 - 4:30, Jeffrey C. Nicholas
   1. Troubleshoot Non-Disability Issues Arising from Disability Claims
   2. De-Mystify the Relationship between Medicare and Social Security
   3. The Social Security Disability Relation to Other Ongoing Cases - Be on Alert!

IVAN M. KATZ is a sole practitioner in New Haven, Connecticut where he practices in the areas of Social Security disability, personal injury and workers' compensation law. Mr. Katz has previously lectured for National Business Institute on social security issues and in 2006 he spoke at the NOSSCR Disability Law Conference in Boston, Massachusetts on the intersection of social security and bankruptcy law. He is a member of the Connecticut and New Haven County Bar Associations and he is active in the Connecticut Bar Association's Disability Law Committee, where he has been a member for more than 30 years. He earned his B.A. and J.D. degrees from Georgetown University.

JEFFREY C. NICHOLAS is an attorney in Torrington, Connecticut and a former claims representative with the Social Security Administration. Mr. Nicholas has been an attorney for more than 20 years and practices in the areas of Social Security Disability, personal injury and workers' compensation. He serves as a Connecticut Fact Finder and Trial Referee. He has served as a neutral arbitrator and was recently reappointed as a Justice of the Peace. Mr. Nicholas was also an AFGE Union Representative and a Claims Representative. He is a member of the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association and a sustaining member of the National Organization of Social Security Claimants’ Representatives (NOSSCR). He is also a member of the Connecticut, Litchfield County and Waterbury bar associations. Mr. Nicholas is admitted to the Connecticut Bar Association, the District of Columbia Bar and U.S. Supreme Court. He served on the Board of Finance, Employees Appeal Board, and as Selectman and First Selectman in the Town of Bethlehem. Mr. Nicholas earned his B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of Connecticut.

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