Client Review on David F. Stoddard Law Firm

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I have mixed feelings on my experience using David Stoddard as my disability attorney. Ultimately my SSDI claim was approved, but I do not feel he and his staff made the process easier, or made me more likely to be approved. He was an hour late for my disability hearing in Greenville. Were it not for me having a laid back judge, I could have had to wait another year for a new hearing date. Following the hearing, it took three months for my benefits to begin. During that time, in search of info, I asked members of his staff to make some phone calls to the attorney-only phone line at Social Security (even gave them the # to call), but twice they “lost” the number and failed to call me back. I honestly felt as if they could care less once my claim was approved. The main thing his office did was fill out the online application and coordinate paperwork. If you can get online, do some research, write well, and have all your medical records, I would seriously consider representing yourself. That would mean up to $6K more in your pocket instead of going to an attorney fee, from your back/retro pay If your claim is approved.. Either that or shop around and consider using another disability attorney. I say that at the risk of sounding ungrateful (I’m not), but I want to make sure other people who were in my situation make the right choice.