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Legal Representation on Federal Disability Retirement Claims: Joy and trials

Posted onJuly 26, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

It is the defining of life itself; of the spectrum across a wide range of peaks, valleys, proverbial mountaintops and chasms of tumults like a groan beneath the terrain of the earth. We attempt to avoid the latter and quantitatively expand the former, thinking that if we fill our experiences with joy, the trials will be lessened or the impact less eventful. There are gauges of summer, the plateau of fall; we sense the discontent of winter and the exhilaration of spring; […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement Benefits: The way we live

Posted onFebruary 25, 2017December 19, 2020AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Did we ever have a voice in it? Was there a consensus of voices, a roll call of votes cast, or a participatory democracy in action that allowed for a resolution that resulted in it? Or, as in authoritarian countries (and some would include ours in that category), was there a “Master Planner” who decided that this way we live was the best for all, with likely a minority of few living somewhat separately, and of course we can all be given some breadcrumbs of hope, as in, “If you work hard enough, you too can achieve this…” […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement: Life’s perverse fullness

Posted onDecember 7, 2016AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

As children, many are taught that life’s promise is unlimited in potentiality, full in its discourse of uncharted waters, and expansive in its promise for tomorrow. Somewhere, in middle-to-late years, we begin to have a somewhat more “balanced” view: not of fullness merely painted with hope and promise, but with graffiti unasked for, undesired and unwanted: the perverse side of fullness. Life can indeed contain and present a “full plate” (as metaphors go), but the question then becomes: What is on that plate? […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement Lawyer: The Language of Choice

Posted onMarch 21, 2015October 12, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

There are certainly other “languages” for conveying information, including (but not limited to): foreign, other than English (but in this cosmopolitan world, where technology has made such barriers a moot point, it becomes almost provincial to speak of one’s native tongue); body; emotive; forms, including written or oral; other body, such as facial; coded; and others not listed here. The choice of language one uses, is often determined by the context and circumstance mandated for various reasons, […] Read More …