★★★★★
My journey with Evans Disability was about 4 years long, but it was well worth the wait. After about 2 years trying and being evaluated by their Doctors I was able to get a monthly payment from SSA - wonderful, and I could still work a part time job. Then the new administration came in and I thought they would get rid of disability & Medicare. But Evans held on and kept pressing for my back pay and FINALLY, about 2 weeks ago I got it. I had given up and thought it wouldn't happen, but it did. I am so thankful to have had Evans on my side and now I have a nice nest egg in the bank as I can't work a full time job.
★★★★★
I've been working with them on my case for a while, and they have remained consistent and professional. They handled my case with care and won it! I'm grateful for all their work and will definitely recommend them. Everyone I've spoken with was kind, empathetic, and supportive.
★★★★★
Evans Disability did a great job advocating for me with Social Security. As a result, I received a FULLY Favorable decision from the judge in my case.
I switched to Evans Disability as my SSDI case was not progressing with a different attorney. What I liked was that Evans has different departments which handle your case as it progresses through the SSA SSDI process. So, I had one team who focused on the "reconsideration" stage and then another who focused on the hearing with the Administrative Law Judge.
The team approach was very good since each were VERY familiar with that step of the SSA process.
My case was also VERY difficult as I live overseas and almost all of my medical records were in spanish. The SSA only translated SOME of the documents, and they missed some other very important ones. In total, this made my file about 4,000 pages long and it was mixed with spanish and english and it was not in a logical sequence. So, the Evans Disability team had a huge task in making sense of my claim. A normal large file in the US might be 700-800 pages long and it would be in English.
Then, imagine, that most people get about 45 minutes with the Judge for you to be asked questions and for your attorney and you to make your case. I received a hearing of 1 hour and 30 minutes because of the complexity. To be honest, my anxiety level during the hearing and afterward was unbelievable. My judge might have been more strict and direct than many others as this part is not supposed to be an adversarial event. Given my anxiety, it felt very harsh in my head. I was certain that we would also be forced to have a second hearing to answer some questions that were still open since the file created by SSA was incredibly difficult to make sense of, even if most of the documents were presented to the Judge in an organized an logical way. And, keep in mind that my attorney ALSO had to try to make sense of this file and make a compelling argument to the Judge on my behalf.
I was assigned to attorney Jack Cahill who has more than 30 years of experience. I'm sure Evans Disability has many more great attorneys, but Jack was mine. Again, Jack Cahill was handed a gigantic "mess" of a file from which he needed to present my case in the most favorable light and to highlight the most important evidence to the Judge. Luckily, the Judge also hired 2 experts to offer their medical opinion after reviewing my medical file. I will emphasize that the judge, in her written opinion, was very complimentary towards Mr. Cahill's representation of me. She went so far as to acknowledge his competence in this matter.
While we were expecting the need to have a second hearing with the Judge, she considered Mr. Cahill's arguments, his questions of the vocation expert, and later she read the 2 expert opinions. I would note that Mr. Cahill was also persuasive in his presenting questions to the vocational expert. And, in at least one hypothetical situation similar to mine, he was able to get the vocation expert to agree that no work or job existed in the US economy in any significant numbers that would allow me to work. To my surprise, the Judge considered all information, and just before we were expecting some order to have a supplementary hearing, the Judge issued a FULLY favorable decision for granting my SSDI.
Some other challenges that Evans Disability had to manage was that I delayed on onset date of my disabilities when I was still 48 years old. It is EXTREMELY difficult to win an award when you are under 50 years old. And we were even prepared to ask the Judge to consider my onset date as 50 years old. But, there was no need as she granted my SSDI request in full.
I highly recommend Evans Disability. I would also recommend that you watch their many YouTube videos, which will prepare you for each step of the SSDI process. Finally, in spite of my terrible anxiety about how my hearing went, I truly must say that Mr. Jack Cahill did a great job during my hearing. Hat's off also to John and Mr. Evans who were right there with me!
