Eligible for up to 1 CLE Credit Hour
This session was originally submitted for CLE as a live, in-person presentation for the 2023 8th Circuit Disability Conference and may be eligible for self-study credit. Each state handles self-study credit differently; for questions, please consult your State Bar Association.
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Eligible for up to 1 CLE Credit Hour
This session was originally submitted for CLE as a live, in-person presentation for the 2023 8th Circuit Disability Conference and may be eligible for self-study credit. Each state handles self-study credit differently; for questions, please consult your State Bar Association.
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Eligible for up to 1 CLE Credit Hour
This session was originally submitted for CLE as a live, in-person presentation for the 2023 8th Circuit Disability Conference and may be eligible for self-study credit. Each state handles self-study credit differently; for questions, please consult your State Bar Association.
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Eligible for up to 1 CLE Credit Hour
This session was originally submitted for CLE as a live, in-person presentation for the 2023 8th Circuit Disability Conference and may be eligible for self-study credit. Each state handles self-study credit differently; for questions, please consult your State Bar Association.
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Eligible for up to 1 CLE Credit Hour
This session was originally submitted for CLE as a live, in-person presentation for the 2023 8th Circuit Disability Conference and may be eligible for self-study credit. Each state handles self-study credit differently; for questions, please consult your State Bar Association.
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Eligible for up to 1 CLE Credit Hour
This session was originally submitted for CLE as a live, in-person presentation for the 2023 8th Circuit Disability Conference and may be eligible for self-study credit. Each state handles self-study credit differently; for questions, please consult your State Bar Association.
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Eligible for up to 1 CLE Credit Hour
This session was originally submitted for CLE as a live, in-person presentation for the 2023 8th Circuit Disability Conference and may be eligible for self-study credit. Each state handles self-study credit differently; for questions, please consult your State Bar Association.
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Eligible for up to 1 CLE Credit Hour
This session was originally submitted for CLE as a live, in-person presentation for the 2023 8th Circuit Disability Conference and may be eligible for self-study credit. Each state handles self-study credit differently; for questions, please consult your State Bar Association.
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Eligible for up to 1 CLE Credit Hour
This session was originally submitted for CLE as a live, in-person presentation for the 2023 8th Circuit Disability Conference and may be eligible for self-study credit. Each state handles self-study credit differently; for questions, please consult your State Bar Association.
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Eligible for up to 1 CLE Credit Hour
This session was originally submitted for CLE as a live, in-person presentation for the 2023 8th Circuit Disability Conference and may be eligible for self-study credit. Each state handles self-study credit differently; for questions, please consult your State Bar Association.
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SSA’s Office of Hearing Operations provides updates and preview coming changes to the disability hearings process.
CLE Credits Requested: 1 hour
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Presented by: Sarah Bohr
Eligible for up to 1 CLE Credit Hour
This session was originally submitted for CLE as a live, in-person presentation for the 2023 8th Circuit Disability Conference and may be eligible for self-study credit. Each state handles self-study credit differently; for questions, please consult your State Bar Association.
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These sessions were originally submitted for CLE as live, in-person presentations for the 2023 8th Circuit Disability Conference and may be eligible for self-study credit. Each state handles self-study credit differently; for questions, please consult your State Bar Association
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Presented by: Scott Smith
A pre and post-hearing brief is essential for any proper case presentation. Preparing these briefs are professionally important and those who so do show a higher degree of care for the client, which judges will recognize. Here we will discuss how a prehearing brief should be organized, the content, length, and how to deal with bad evidence. We will discuss post hearing briefs when they are needed and what to include. Get ready for... Details
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Presented by: Laura Melnick; Nicole Mourgos
This session provides strategies for dealing with noncooperative clients, providers, and Medical Experts. Strategies for getting clients to share their information and experiences will be explored. The speakers discuss the most difficult mental health cases and how best to approach them. They will also talk about secondary trauma. Finally, they will talk about what happens when a hearing goes awry.
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Presented by: Stephen Sloan
The World Health Organization recognized that migraines on their own were the sixth highest case of years lost due to disability. Headaches disorders collectively were the third highest. Yet very few disability allowances are made based upon headache disorders. This session will give you a comprehensive guide to SSR 19-4p, teaching how to identify migraine cases, and develop evidence that will help you win these cases.
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Presented by: Christina Garcia; Charlene Morring
While most ALJs are neutral and objective arbiters of fact, sometimes objectivity goes out the window. At this stage, your role as representative goes beyond presenting a case, but morphs into defending our client and yourself. In this session, you will learn how to address concerns that your ALJ is biased and the professional way to handle it for you and your client.
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How to Make it Hard for SSA to Deny Your Client's Disability Claim
Presented by: Kevin Liebkemann; Richard Weishaupt
This session will focus on ADLs, treatment, behaviors and character issues that are often seized upon to deny claims and reject medical evidence. It will address common beliefs that adjudicators rely upon to cast doubt on credibility of claimants and provider reports, how to anticipate them and counter them at hearings and attack them on... Details
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Presented by: Edwin Lopez-Soto; Debora Wagner
The most common reason for an overpayment of disability benefits is work activity on the part of the disability beneficiary. Many disability beneficiaries find that living on the disability benefits are difficult, so they find a job to supplement their income. The problems begin there. Learn how to avoid them the difficulties between reconsideration and waiver of the overpayment and about the best kept administrative waiver... Details
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Presented by: Marissa O'Connor; Christina Walters
Learn what reasons might trigger an overpayment for your client and what to do when your client receives the overpayment notice.
This course was originally submitted for credit as part of a live Virtual Conference and may be eligible for self-study credit. For more information about submitting for self-study credit, please consult with your State Bar Association.
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Presented by: Debora Wagner
This session tackles the basics of VA benefits, including Compensation, Pension, and Health Care and how these benefits intersect with Social Security benefits.
This course was originally submitted for credit as part of a live Virtual Conference and may be eligible for self-study credit. For more information about submitting for self-study credit, please consult with your State Bar Association.
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Presented by: Jennifer Cronenberg
NOSSCR's Jennifer Cronenberg provides recommendations for helping families navigate the Title II Social Security disability process after a loved one passes away.
This course was originally submitted for credit as part of a live Virtual Conference and may be eligible for self-study credit. For more information about submitting for self-study credit, please consult with your State Bar Association.
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The Shield and the Sword: Protecting Social Security Benefits and Holding Creditors Accountable
Presented by: Dominic Pontello
Requested 1 CLE Credit Hour.
This session was originally submitted as a live session for the 2023 8th Circuit Disability Conference and may be eligible for self-study credit. Each state handles self-study credit differently; for questions, please consult your State Bar Association.
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Enhancing Disability Representation
Maria Bermudez explores ways to streamline operations and manage representatives' caseloads by implementing case management technology and standard operating procedures. Maria's recommendations can help improve efficiency, empower to staff to make decisions without attorney involvement and provide a greater level of service for vulnerable clients.
This course was originally submitted for credit as part of a live Virtual ... Details
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Presented by: Sara Carroll
Learn how to overcome the doctrine of res judicata through practical examples. Many of our clients give up on their applications after the first or second denial. Many of them do not have a good understanding of how to properly appeal a case or the mental capacity to do so properly. For many reasons, SSA may not have had the whole picture when working up the medical determination. When clients come to us it’s important to analyze how those prior... Details
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