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Federal Disability Retirement Law: Fool’s Gold

Posted onJuly 16, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

Pyrite is often the element mistaken for gold, with its bright yellow appearance and shiny, reflective compound. Why a given mineral is determined of greater value than another of similar appearance is a complicated affair, encapsulating economic principles of supply and demand, the fungibility and replacement feature of one over the other, and the plain fact that the elemental differentiation itself constitutes “real” versus “fake”. It is, in history books, novels and plays, a metaphor for greed, corruption, ill-fated endeavors, and motives which propel obsessions of determined failure and futility. […] Read More …

OPM Medical Retirement: Anonymity of the Routine

Posted onMay 21, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney2 Comments

Most people prefer anonymity; although, in more recent years, the hunt for one’s five minutes of fame by “hook or by crook”, whether to impose, intrude, push through, etc., and wave in front of a camera, or to perform some demeaning act to attract a byline in the Guinness Book of Records, has become a prevalence beyond mere happenstance exception. Perhaps it is the age of Youtube, of selfie images and the need to see one’s portrait, name or reference reflected in the public domain, which belies the common quest for the mundane. […] Read More …

How to Handle an OPM Disability Retirement Claim: Tempered Approaches

Posted onMay 13, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Life is often a linear experience of extremes; this is an age when expectations call for responses of excess, and not of minimization. There is no sense of an “eye for an eye” — a proportional sense of fair play, or of deescalation of conflict; rather, as we become callous and conditioned to shock therapy of the cultural sort, so there is little to amaze or to surprise, and by the first grade, the child of modernity has experienced it all, from profane language to stories of war, murder and mayhem in the streets. […] Read More …