Common Additional Medical Docs to Request for Social Security Disability Cases (Presented by the National Organization of Social Security Claimants’ Representatives)

Ashley Sappenfield | Lanier Law Group

Ashley Sappenfield is the department manager and senior attorney for litigation and social security disability for Lanier Law Group. She is a board-certified specialist in Social Security disability law and teaches a clinic on the same at Elon University School of Law in Greensboro. She is the current awards chair and immediate past chair for the North Carolina Advocates for Justice Disability Advocacy Section and is the rising Treasurer for NOSSCR.

Emma Webb | Drozdowski & Rabin

Emma Drozdowski Webb, managing attorney at Drozdowski & Rabin’s Knoxville office, is a Certified Disability Specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. She has been named a Top Attorney in North America in 2018-19. She has also been named a Top Attorney in Social Security Disability law by her peers in the Knoxville Bar in Cityview magazine on multiple occasions. Emma has lectured nationally on Social Security law. Emma has been recognized by local and regional bar associations, and community groups, as a leading advocate in this area of law. She has been working on behalf of Social Security disability claimants since 2008, and is a graduate of Tulane University and Loyola University Chicago College of Law. She is admitted to practice law in the United States Eastern District of Tennessee and the United States Middle District of Tennessee.

I. Review of the all-evidence rule and how to make subpoena requests | 3:00pm – 3:15pm

II. The usefulness of documents outside of medical records bolstering a claim | 3:15pm – 3:30pm

III. The employment file, ltd/std file, veteran’s benefits file, worker’s compensation file, and submission of pictures | 3:30pm – 3:45pm

IV. Forms provided by the SSA such as the work history report and the function report and why these documents filled out in their entirety are necessary for establishing a good claim | 3:45pm – 4:00pm