Some social security disability (SSD) and supplemental security (SSI) cases may be won without a lawyer.  Many winning cases are lost because there was no lawyer.In preparing for a winning outcome, your attorney should perform the following:

    1. Guide you through the process and tell you what to expect;

    2. Handle your disability appeals;

    3. Determine whether a video hearing is appropriate for this case;

    4. Review your medical records to assure that the file is complete;

    5. Determine which medical source statements are appropriate for your case;

    6. Obtain, with your assistance, medical source statements from your doctors;

    7. Obtain notarized affidavits from your friends and family;
    
    8. Advise you how to dress at the hearing;

    9. Prepare you for hearing by reviewing questions that will likely be asked by the judge;
    
      10. Prepare a pre-hearing brief for the judge and provide the judge with a theory of the case;  

      11. Make legal arguments to the judge and develop your case by asking the appropriate questions at the hearings.