A Chronicle podcast
Disability Heroes
Conversations with the attorneys and advocates behind disability law. One guest, one practice, and the real story behind it. Hosted by Will Yang. A Chronicle production.
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A minute on who the show is for and what the conversations sound like.
Episodes
One guest, one practice, and the real story behind it.
Building a Social Security Disability Practice After a Catastrophic Injury with Diane Haar, Hawaii Disability Legal Services
Diane Haar — Founder, Hawaii Disability Legal Services
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Why This Social Security Disability Attorney Will Never Retire with Tracey Pate, Disability Associates
Tracey Pate — Founder, Disability Associates
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14 more conversations recorded and in the edit.
J. Shay Guess
EDPNA, SAM G Enterprises
Mississippi
Brian J. Gillette
Founder, Gillette Law Group, PLLC
Williamsburg, Virginia
TC Walker
President & Managing Attorney, Walker Firm
Hermosa Beach, California
Deborah S. Spector
Owner & Managing Attorney, Spector and Lenz, P.C.
Chicago, Illinois
Joanna Suyes
Attorney, Suyes Law, PLLC
Richmond, Virginia
Jeremy Willis
Owner, Willis Disability Law
Texas
Jeffrey A. Rabin
Founder & Managing Attorney, Law Offices of Jeffrey A. Rabin & Associates
Chicago area, Illinois
Lance White
Managing Attorney, Magnolia Disability Law
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Beth A. Alpert
Founder, Beth A. Alpert & Associates
Chicago, Illinois
Shiv Patel
Founder, Patel Law
New York, New York
Eva Sirman, CAE
Association Manager, National Association of Disability Representatives
Houston, Texas
Lawrence & Russell Rohlfing
Founder · Attorney, Law Offices of Lawrence D. Rohlfing
Santa Fe Springs, California
Jan L. Kodner
Retired, Jan L. Kodner & Associates
Chicago, Illinois
Kaitlyn Newell
Director of Legal Services, Carmichael Law Group
Opelika, Alabama
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We are always looking for the next conversation. If you represent disability claimants and have built something worth talking about, tell us about your practice.
About the show
Every disability law practice starts with a story. A career that fell apart. A client who changed everything. A case that hit too close to home.
Disability Heroes is a conversation series about the people behind Social Security disability law: who they are, how they fight for their clients, and what they have learned building a practice that works. One guest, one practice, and an unhurried conversation that covers the personal side and the business side in equal measure.
Most guests represent SSDI and SSI claimants through applications, appeals, and ALJ hearings. Some are disability attorneys. Some are EDPNAs and other non-attorney representatives. All of them do difficult, largely invisible work, and this show exists to put it on the record under their own names.
Episodes get into the craft and the operations together: hearing preparation and what actually moves an administrative law judge, gathering and organizing medical evidence, keeping clients steady through waits measured in years, continuing disability reviews and overpayment notices, and the economics of a contingency practice. Expect the intake decisions that shape a caseload, hiring and training the first few employees, and what technology has genuinely changed about disability law firm operations versus what it has only promised. Guests disagree with each other on plenty of it, and those disagreements are left in.
Episodes run about thirty to sixty minutes, with guests from solo practices to national firms. Hosted by Will Yang and produced by Chronicle.