Co-presented by NOSSCR
and Chronicle
Disability Law Tech Summit:
CAPACITY ’26
Most firms already have more capacity than they are using. One afternoon on where it is hiding.
Free, and recorded for everyone who registers. You do not need to be a NOSSCR member.
Registering shares your name, firm, and email with the summit partners so they can follow up about their sessions. Email us to be left off that list.
Summit partners
The premise
Every disability firm we talk to is trying to grow, and almost every one of them describes the same bottleneck: not enough hours, and not enough people to sell more hours to.
The premise of this summit is that the bottleneck is usually somewhere else. Capacity a firm already owns tends to sit in three places nobody looks at, because none of them show up as a line item. It sits in the relationships the firm already has. It sits in the cases the firm already turns down. And it sits in the hours the firm already spends on every single file, whether that file is worth anything or not.
An opening practitioner panel, four sessions and a closing panel, each one pointed at a different place that capacity is hiding. Every session is taught by a technology partner alongside a practicing attorney, on a real workflow, with live questions.
CAPACITY ’26 is a collaboration between NOSSCR and Chronicle. NOSSCR brings the practitioners and the standard every session is held to. Chronicle produces the day and runs the room. It is open to everyone working in disability law, whether or not you are a NOSSCR member.
Agenda
All times Eastern. Sessions run about 30 minutes of content and 15 minutes of live Q&A.
This is a working agenda, not a final one.
Session titles, running order and times may still shift. Register and you will hear about every change before this page catches up.
- 12:00
Welcome
Chronicle and NOSSCR
Why NOSSCR and Chronicle built this together, and what to do with the next five hours.
- 12:05
How to Grow Your Caseload Without Growing Your Payroll
Opening practitioner panel
Disability practitioners on expanding what the practice can carry without expanding payroll to match. Live conversation, no slides.
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Diane Haar Hawaii Disability Legal Services -
Will Viner Viner Disability Law -
Kaitlyn Newell Carmichael Law Group
You leave with: The specific decisions real firms made instead of hiring.
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- 12:50 5-minute break
- 12:55
Getting an Initiating SSI Claim on File: How to Navigate Field Offices’ Ever-Changing Protocols
Benny, with a practicing attorney
An SSI claim is not on file until the field office takes it, and every office seems to handle that differently. How to get an initiating claim filed when appointment rules, phone lines, and local practices keep changing.
You leave with: A repeatable way to get an SSI claim on file, whichever field office you are dealing with.
- 1:40 5-minute break
- 1:45
Winning Before the Hearing: Leveraging Tech to Build Strong OTR Requests
LexMed, with Ted Norwood of Integrated Benefits
On-the-record (OTR) decisions let a claimant win before a hearing is ever held, but a strong OTR request depends on finding the right evidence in a long record and presenting it well. How to spot OTR-ready cases early, which findings carry an OTR request, and how technology can help you build a stronger request in less attorney time.
You leave with: A practical process you can use on your next file.
- 2:30 10-minute break
- 2:40
More Cases, Same Team: Using AI to Address Your Firm’s Bottlenecks
Konoski & Partners, P.C., with a practicing attorney
Intake calls, subpoena requests, five-day letters, missing medical records, training new staff: the places a firm runs out of people before it runs out of cases. Where AI takes on the volume in each, and how to keep the work professional and compliant every time.
You leave with: Your firm’s bottlenecks, and where AI can take each one on.
- 3:25 5-minute break
- 3:30
How to Stop Clients From Calling to Ask What Is Happening
Chronicle
The status calls that fill a case manager’s week, where they come from, and what changes when the firm speaks first.
You leave with: The client questions your firm answers most, and how to answer them before they are asked.
- 4:00 5-minute break
- 4:05
Open Q&A: Where Firms Find Capacity They Already Have
Closing panel
Rachel A. Carlson, Bryan Konoski, and Nikhil Pai on the capacity a firm already has and does not use. Thirty minutes of moderated discussion, then fifteen minutes of open questions from the room. No slides. Bring your bottleneck.
You leave with: Your own question answered live.
- 4:50
Closing remarks
Chronicle
A few minutes to land the day: what came up across the sessions, where the recordings go, and what happens next.
Save your seat, free
There is no ticket and no fee. The summit is funded by its partners, which is what keeps it free for NOSSCR members and everyone else who registers.
Register for CAPACITY ’26Registration takes about a minute. You get a calendar hold and the join link straight away.
Summit partners
Every partner teaches a session or takes a seat on the closing panel.
Presenting partner
Produces the summit and moderates the closing panel.
Session partners
Each teaches one 45-minute session alongside a practicing attorney.
Panel partners
A seat on the closing panel, with questions supplied in advance.
Chronicle and Konoski & Partners, P.C. each appear under more than one tier because they hold more than one slot. Partner lineup is subject to change.
Frequently asked questions
Nothing at all. There is no ticket, no fee, and no upsell at the door. The summit is funded by its partners, which is what keeps it free for NOSSCR members and everyone else who registers.
No. The summit is open to anyone working in disability law: attorneys, non-attorney representatives, paralegals, case managers, intake and operations staff, and firm owners. NOSSCR co-presents it and members will hear about it through NOSSCR, but membership is not required to register or to attend, and nothing on the day is gated.
Yes. Every registrant gets the recordings afterward, whether or not they attend live. Registering is worth it even if November 12 is a hearing day.
No, these are not direct product demos. The point of the summit is to teach practitioners the newest ways to put technology to work in a disability firm and grow capacity with it. A partner’s product may come up where it is genuinely part of the workflow being taught, but every session is education first, and the measure is whether you leave having learned something new from the person presenting.
No, though we would encourage you to catch as much of it as you can. It is a single track, so there is nothing to choose between and nothing to miss by staying for the whole thing. Schedules being what they are, if a conflict takes you away for part of the day, the recordings go out to everyone who registered.
Not at this time. If that changes before November 12, everyone who has registered will hear about it first.
Chronicle runs registration and is the organizer of record. Registering shares your name, firm, and email with the summit partners so they can follow up about their sessions. If you would rather they did not, email will@chroniclelegal.com and you are off the list that goes out, before the event or after it. Nobody sells, rents, or passes the list on to anyone else.