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OPM Disability Retirement Lawyer: Preemptive Actions

Posted onMay 5, 2015November 9, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Knowledge can be a dangerous commodity; partial, or little knowledge, can be all the more damaging, precisely because actions can result based upon incomplete information and slices of factually curtailed composites. The Court of the Appeals for the Federal Circuit has previously pointed out one of the methodological deficiencies engaged in by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, in its review and determination of Federal Disability Retirement cases: of focusing upon that which is not included in a Federal Disability Retirement application, as opposed to reviewing the information of what has been received. […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: The Quiet Subtlety of Excellence

Posted onMarch 5, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Failure blares like a discordant trumpet in a confined space with no exit; success flows like the quiet stream on the other side of the mountain, barely noticed. In law, it is the appeal, and the written order issued therefrom, which receives the attention of the daily press. Yet, if one pauses to consider: The reason for the appeal, is the lack of success at the trial court level. For Federal employees and U.S. Postal workers who suddenly find themselves the target of workplace hostility because of a medical condition which now prevents them from performing one or more of the essential elements of their job, it is often a surprise that they have become a focal point of interest. […] Read More …

OPM Medical Retirement Lawyer: Acrylic Acrimonies

Posted onNovember 28, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

It usually refers to paints, but is technically an acid used to form polymers, and may be mixed in order to manufacture compound elements for plastic and other synthetic products. The second part of the short alliteration refers to the bitterness which develops when failure, or a perceived failure, begins to gnaw at the edges of sanity. The slow, incremental, eating away at a life of accomplishment and productivity, can come when once the self-discipline of setting insurmountable parameters has been ignored or otherwise untended. Bitterness is a state of regret, reserved for old men and furies left uncontrolled. […]

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Postal and Federal Medical Retirement: The Concealment of Emoticons

Posted onNovember 18, 2014March 9, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

They replace the true face of humanity. Pasted with a quick tap of a computer keyboard, they allegedly represent the state of emotional being of a person, at a given time, within a granted context, in the course of an interplay accomplished in diatribes of virtual reality. Contrast such antiseptic encounters with the profound agony felt in Anton Chekhov’s short story, “Grief” (or sometimes otherwise entitled, “Misery”), and one begins to comprehend the depths of distancing depravity that people have fallen to in an attempt to bifurcate humanity from personal contact. […]

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