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Hello. This is Springfield Missouri disability lawyer Jason Krebs. In today’s video, this is the next video in our series, on things that can ruin your Missouri or Arkansas disability case. Today we wanted to talk about representing yourself at the hearing, or more correctly, not having a lawyer represent you at your disability hearing. That is generally a very bad idea.
The fact that you have a lawyer doesn’t mean that that lawyer is a miracle worker. If you haven’t been going to the doctor all that lawyer or all any lawyer can do, myself or anyone else, is argue the facts, the evidence, and present those that evidence, that law in the best light possible, and then argue the law. If you haven’t been going your physician or your doctors, there’s not much that any lawyer is going to be able to do.
It’s also important to talk to somebody locally or in your area where you know who they are as opposed to just … You can hire somebody off the internet and they make it really easy to type in your information, and you’ve got a advocate or an attorney or somebody representing you and it’s real simple, but a lot of these outfits one, are selling your name, your information to other lawyers or advocates that aren’t even lawyers. Basically you’re a “lead” or they have you as a client that they have no attorneys locally.
We get calls all the time or emails from outfits from various parts of the country that are wanting us to cover hearings from them, because they don’t actually have any lawyers or anybody to actually handle your case. These are companies that they just get your information, and they retain you or you retain them as a client, and then they just hope for the best. It’s a numbers game for them. They don’t know anything about the local judges, they don’t know how a local judge conducts his or her hearing, and you’re just kind of at the mercy of whoever they can find at that point.
Some of the big firms are like this as well. You don’t know who’s handing your case, or the lawyer may not know who you are until the day of the hearing, or day before. They might be handling your file and then you’re sent out … They’re calling your name in the lobby at the hearing office. That’s typically not the best thing for you as far as getting your case approved.
We do offer a book to Missouri and Arkansas residents. You can get that at [ Ссылка ] or 417-883-5886 or 1-800-345-0535 and we’ll be glad to get that out to you. Thanks for watching, and best of luck.
