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Hopeless · 06-18-2013, 03:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Mz Migraine

Call your atty if no response to your email within 24-48hrs. If you have to leave a message, remind the atty politely yet firmly that he/she is working for YOU, not the other way around. You expect a call back within that day. Also remember that you are not the atty only client.

If you are waiting for an ALJ date, there is nothing for the atty to do but to gather all your current medical records up to the date of your hearing. The atty will contact you either by phone or letter if he/she needs anything further from you - seeing any new doctors, etc.
Once you have a date, approximately a week or two prior to the hearing, the atty more than likely will have you come to their office to "prep" you. Any questions you may have, write them down and take them to your "prep" appt.
On the day of your hearing while you are waiting to be called in, the atty will further discuss your "prepness."<---- Is that such a word?

GOOD LUCK!

Thanks for your response. My atty responded very quickly via e-mail and I was impressed with his immediate response. He said he should have my file by the end of the week from SSDI and will contact me. We also discussed some recent tests I had performed since our initial meeting. I much prefer to communicate via e-mail than phone as my hearing is not so good. I ask people to repeat, repeat, repeat, and then I give up and "guess" at the "fill in the blanks" which I feel could be detrimental under these circumstances.

Attorneys are not doctors so how do they advocate for you about things that are not their expertise? What if your attorney is not familiar with your medical condition? I was thinking we would have to meet more frequently so that he could get to know me, understand my medical condition, and how it impacts my life. Or does he get all the information from my file which I am guessing will contain my application and all the other paperwork I completed? Is the only "voice" in the process just what is on paper?