Parmele Law Firm

At Parmele Law Firm, our mission is to provide excellence in representation, compassion for the disabled, and hope for the hopeless, with honesty, integrity, and equity for all.

It's not just our legal skill that we're known for. Not our thousands of successful disability claims. Not the millions of dollars of rightful benefits we've helped our clients collect. When you choose the Parmele Law staff to represent you, you also get the compassion of people who understand your pain, are willing to listen to your story, and are eager to offer comfort. In short, we do our best to be a friend. We learned long ago that living a quality life means having a trusted friend who will go the distance with you.

By making the choice to file your initial claim using Parmele Law Firm, your chances for success improve greatly. We can help you fill out all the necessary forms to Social Security Administration specifications, and help you avoid traps within the questionnaires of the Social Security Administration and Disability Determinations Section. We help you gather relevant medical records and documents, and then we send them to the Social Security Administration for you. We also communicate for you before the Social Security Administration, and represent you before an ALJ (Administrative Law Judge), if necessary. In addition, we'll do everything in our power to expedite the awards process and keep you informed of your claim's progress.

And, although the outcome of any case is never guaranteed, our knowledge of the system allows us to assist you in filing your claim with skill, minimizing errors that you might make that could cause your claim to be rejected.

Filing a claim for Social Security disability benefits on your own can be an overwhelming process. Confusing forms. Busy Social Security Administration telephones. Social Security Administration employees who are trained how to question applicants in a way to weaken their disability case. Being sent for evaluations to doctors that are routinely used by the Social Security Administration. Long months just wondering whether your claim has been approved or denied.

Filing your own claim is risky, at best. Statistics show that approximately six out of every ten initial Social Security disability claims are denied. Every day, the Social Security Administration is flooded with thousands of claims. Understaffed and overworked, reviewers will deny a disability claim based on the most minor irregularities in paperwork, unclear information, or untimely responses.

Unfortunately for you, if your initial claim is denied, you must then begin the lengthy appeals process that stretches into months, and even years.

If you've filed your claim and have been denied, don't give up. With the Parmele staff's vast experience with Social Security disability claims, we help you prove your case. We help you with tedious paperwork. We help you properly complete the Disability Report, Request For Hearing Form SSA 3441, Request for Review, and so forth. We help you assemble the proper medical records and documentation, tend to deadlines, and track your case.

Statistics show now that a case handled by an attorney from the very start – especially an attorney who focuses on Social Security disability law – has an edge over one simply handled by either a non-attorney representative or someone on their own. The case is taken much more seriously due to the implication that the attorney can appeal an unfavorable decision to the Appeals Council, and to U.S. District Court. In Federal Court, only a licensed attorney who is admitted before the District Court can represent claimants.

Due to the complexity of the appeals process, if you decide to appeal an UNFAVORABLE ALJ decision, your case should be handled by an attorney. Proceeding on your own is very difficult because Federal Court appeals involve the citation of relevant federal cases, as well as formal legal argument. In these cases, the U.S. Justice Department represents the Social Security Administration.

If your case goes to an administrative hearing, we prepare you for it, as well as represent you at the hearing. Due to our knowledge of the Social Security system and its requirements, we may even be able to help you get a higher award than you could get on your own.

Because of the debilitating nature of your illness, you don't need the added stress of up-front fees and expenses while you fight for your health and your quality of life. That's why the payment of your fee is delayed until we win your case for you. And we don't ever charge a fee unless we win, under the Fee Agreement System. Once you win your case, our fee is established by the Social Security Administration as 25% of your retroactive disability payment, up to a MAXIMUM of $5,300. After that, you keep 100% of your monthly benefits.

From start to finish, you can rest assured your case is always given complete and thorough attention. Your initial meeting with Mr. Parmele or his staff sets in motion the difficult – and tedious – process of getting your benefits for you. While his paralegals and clerks are busy assisting you with your forms, helping you assemble your documentation, and keeping you updated regularly, Mr. Parmele is busy behind the scenes, focusing on winning your case.

There is never a free moment when it comes to properly preparing for your success. Just as he does with all his clients, Mr. Parmele is continually directing his staff on every step of your appeal, supervising paralegals and attorneys as they work on your files, drafting arguments for the Appeals Council and for U.S. District Court, and preparing for and attending ALJ Hearings (reviewing files, medical records, communicating with your doctor's office, communicating with the Social Security Administration and Office of Hearings and Appeals), all to make sure you are well represented.

If your case goes to U.S. District Court, Mr. Parmele will ready himself and his attorneys by drafting briefs on your case, reviewing federal court briefs filed by the U.S. Attorney's office, drafting new arguments, and attending oral arguments when necessary.