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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, Jeffrey L. Greenwald
   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 - 11:45, Alexis Berg-Townsend
   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 - 2:00, Jeffrey L. Greenwald
   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
   2:15 - 3:15, Jeffry L. Gilbert
   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
   3:15 - 4:30, Jeffry L. Gilbert
   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!

ALEXIS BERG-TOWNSEND is an attorney in the office of George A. Berg & Associates. She represents claimants for Social Security disability, SSI, and workers' compensation for injured workers. Ms. Berg-Townsend received her B.C.J. degree from Tiffin University and her J.D. degree from Ohio Northern University. She is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and the U.S. District Court for Eastern District of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the LeHigh County (member, Social Security Committee and Workers' Compensation Committee) and Pennsylvania (member, Worker's Compensation Section Committee) bar associations.

JEFFRY L. GILBERT is a sole practitioner in Allentown that has successfully represented numerous Social Security disability claimants in both administrative and federal court proceedings. He manages a large Social Security practice and has appeared on television programs and at seminars sponsored by the Bar Association of LeHigh County to discuss Social Security disability issues. Mr. Gilbert also teaches a paralegal course on Social Security disability practice as an adjunct professor at LeHigh County Community College. He is a sustaining member of NOSSCR and a member of the Pennsylvania Bar and The Florida Bar. Mr. Gilbert received his A.B. degree from Muhlenberg College and his J.D. degree from the University of Miami, Florida School of Law.

JEFFREY L. GREENWALD is a sole practitioner in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He is licensed in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts (inactive in Massachusetts) Mr. Greenwald is admitted to practice for the U.S. District Courts, for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and Middle District of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Court of Appeals - 3rd Circuit. His practice areas include Social Security disability, civil/commercial litigation, worker's compensation, employment law and unemployment compensation. Mr. Greenwald has given presentations on Social Security and unemployment compensation law for the Bar Association of LeHigh County, and on landlord/tenant law. He has represented Social Security claimants for more than 30 years and the past 21 years were his primary practice area. He has successfully represented claimant's at all levels of the administrative and court process, up through the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, with substantial experience at the District Court level. Mr. Greenwald received his B.A. degree from SUNY at Buffalo and his J.D. degree from Northeastern University School of Law. He is a member of the Board of Directors for the Bar Association of LeHigh County and member of Social Security and Worker's Compensation Practice committees; the Worker's Compensation section of the Pennsylvania Bar Association; and a sustaining member for the National Organization of Social Security Claimant's Representatives (NOSSCR).

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