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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

1. SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY: GET THE BASICS DOWN
   9:00 - 10:15, Dean C. Marcus
   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, Dean C. Marcus
   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, Joanna L. Suyes
   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, Edwin F. Brooks
   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
   3:30 - 4:30, Edwin F. Brooks
   1. Litigating a Childhood Disability Case? Here's What to Know
   2. Troubleshoot Non-Disability Issues Arising from Disability Claims
   3. The Danger of Mishandling Veteran's Administration Issues
   4. De-Mystify the Relationship between Medicare and Social Security
   5. The Social Security Disability Relation to Other Ongoing Cases - Be on Alert!

EDWIN F. BROOKS is the owner of Edwin F. Brooks LLC, where he focuses his practice in the areas of criminal law, federal law, Social Security disability, juvenile law, and condemnation cases. Mr. Brooks earned his B.S. degree with honors from Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. He earned his J.D. degree from the University of Colorado School of Law. Mr. Brooks is licensed to practice law in the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Supreme Court of Virginia, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.

DEAN C. MARCUS is an attorney with the law firm of Marks & Harrison in Richmond, Virginia. Mr. Marcus is an experienced trial lawyer and has tried cases throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia as well as in federal courts. He heads up the Social Security Disability Section for Marks & Harrison and also handles certain types of criminal defense cases. Mr. Marcus is a member of the faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University's Graduate School of Forensic Science where he teaches a class on evidence and expert testimony. He graduated from Gettysburg College and the University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law. Mr. Marcus is a member of the National Organization of Social Security Claimants' Representatives (NOSSCR), Richmond Criminal Bar Association (president (2009-2010); vice-president (2008-2009), Richmond Bench-Bar Conference (Criminal Section co-chair (2007, 2008, 2010); conference chairman (2011), Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, American Association for Justice and Legal Information Network for Cancer (LINC).

JOANNA L. SUYES is an attorney at the law firm of Marks & Harrison where she focuses her practice on wage and hour and Social Security disability. Ms. Suyes graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1989 and received her M. Div. degree from the Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond.  A former legal assistant at Marks & Harrison, she received her J. D. degree, cum laude, from the T.C. Williams School of Law at the University of Richmond. Ms. Suyes is a member of the, Virginia State Bar (2007, Access to Legal Services Committee), District of Columbia Bar (2008), U.S. District Court, Eastern & Western District of Virginia, Richmond Bar Association, National Employment Lawyers Association, National Organization of Social Security Claimants' Representatives, American Association for Justice, Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, and LINC - Legal Information Network for Cancer. She has published “Children and the Law: How to Handle Infant Settlements," The Journal of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, Volume 21 Number 4, 2010.

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