Originally Posted by Janke

Thanks for the vote of confidence, but there is no way I know the rules backwards and forwards.

And a former SSA employee or DDS employee may be helpful in getting through the bureaucratic maze (sometimes with limited success), I would want a specialized SSA attorney with years of experience, who would attend my hearing and not hand me off to a staff attorney, and meet with me directly at least twice before my hearing to represent me if my case was at the ODAR level.