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Lawyer Representation for Federal Disability Retirement Claims: The image we hold

Posted onAugust 19, 2017March 17, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

What picture do we carry? No, not in one’s pocket or wallet, but in the eye of one’s mind. Is it one that has been frozen in time; an imprint from a bygone era, a specific day in one’s past where childhood memories once floated upon a cloud of dreams and wishes? Or, is it of more recent vintage – wrapped in layers of cynicism and denied opportunities, huddled in a corner where bitterness, wrongs and outrages of blames […] Read More …

Federal & Postal Disability Retirement Systems: The sacristan

Posted onApril 17, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

There was once such a job. Now, of course, the closest we can come to it is forever hidden in the secrecy of our own private lives. For, there is nothing sacred, anymore, and everything private has been allowed to be revealed in the public domain of electronic declaratives. Whether of protecting holy oils, ensuring that decretals are unblemished in their interpretation; of maintaining the decorum, orderliness and cleanliness of the altar and the implements of worship; and initiating the timeliness of church bells to call upon the loyal throng to approach with the sacraments of piety. […] Read More …

Federal Employee Disability Retirement: The measure of sincerity

Posted onMay 7, 2016AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

How do you measure a concept? By application of, or comparison with, another? Or, does it require a meta-application — an algorithm from a different dimension? We measure linear horizontal distances by coordinated precision of segmentation, and vertical sedimentary deposits by arc designs manifested and revealed in nature; so, what of conceptual distances and chasms of thoughts? Can more words validate the sincerity of previously spoken words merely uttered in an informal setting of pleasantry and conversational discourse? Does a track record of broken promises undermine the sincerity of future intentions conveyed by more words? […] Read More …

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement for Employees from the Postal Service and Other Federal Agencies: Things That Go Bump in the Night

Posted onDecember 24, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Whether or not childhood fear and traumas have a long-term impact in determinable ways upon reactive capacities later in life; to what extent regularity of behaviors, consistency of habitual living, and early imprinting mechanisms influence subconscious firings of synapses, remains within the mysterious realm of esoteric knowledge investigated and analyzed by the coalescence of science, philosophy and psychology; but it is the lay person who must, during the process of unfolding discovery and wisdom, live the consequences of actions impacted by others. […]

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Federal Employee’s Medical Retirement Programs: Propriety of Sequence

Posted onJuly 11, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney3 Comments

Propriety is not a concept which is much discussed, anymore. That which is socially or morally “proper” has been discarded, precisely because convention is no longer accepted as a standard to follow. But when the consistent pursuance of the opposite of X becomes the […] Read More …

CSRS & FERS Disability Retirement: Complexity in the Hidden Background

Posted onJuly 3, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney2 Comments

To prove one’s eligibility for Federal Disability Retirement benefits from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, whether one is under FERS or CSRS, is seemingly an uncomplicated matter. As one’s medical condition impacts the ability to perform one or more of the essential element of one’s job, it is up to the treating doctor to establish […] Read More …

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement for Federal and USPS Workers: Striving for an Unobtrusive Life of Quietude

Posted onMay 26, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney4 Comments

When first entering the adversarial universe of trial lawyers, a kindly but seasoned opposition who easily made foolish mincemeat out of the flustered composite of inexperience and youthful exuberance, but later approached to compliment the young […] Read More …

OPM FERS/CSRS Disability Retirement: Sequential Propriety

Posted onMay 15, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney2 Comments

In many societies and cultures which still consider social protocol of applicable importance, correctness and orderly rectitude must be followed in rigorous detail. It is the process itself which constitutes substantive relevance, and not merely the ritual itself. […] Read More …

Federal Gov. and USPS Disability Retirement: The Pragmatic Steps

Posted onSeptember 4, 2013AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

The practical aspects of every process must never be overlooked. When an issue or procedural process appears complicated, what often happens is that people get entangled in the details of such complexity and overlook the fundamentals which support the […] Read More …

Medical Retirement Benefits for US Government Employees: An Aristotelian Approach

Posted onMay 7, 2013AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics has been the primary foundation for the Western paradigm of proper behavior in philosophy. Quite distinct from his obtuse Metaphysics, the ethical framework of Aristotle takes a pragmatic, almost Confucian approach to correct […] Read More …