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Bohr's Social Security Issues Annotated

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Sarah H. Bohr has specialized in Social Security law for twenty-five years and is a partner in Bohr & Harrington, LLC, a Jacksonville, Florida law firm offering a national Social Security brief writing service. She has written Social Security briefs for filing in the federal courts in over fifteen states as well as the Second, Third, Fifth, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeal, and argued Sims v. Apfel before the Supreme Court of the United States. See Sims v. Apfel, 530 U.S. 103, 120 S.Ct. 2080, 147 L.Ed.2d 80 (2000). She previously worked as a legal services attorney for 20 years at Jacksonville Area Legal Aid, Inc.

Ms. Bohr is the Immediate Past President of the Board of Directors of the National Organization of Social Security Claimants’ Representatives (NOSSCR), and has served on NOSSCR’S Board for over ten years as a representative from the Eleventh Circuit. She is a frequent speaker at NOSSCR conferences and at other Social Security seminars on a wide range of disability and non-disability issues. Ms. Bohr also has two publications she publishes herself, Winning Appeals Council Arguments, and Eleventh Circuit Social Security Cases, which are updated yearly. To obtain these publications, please contact Ms. Bohr at sarahbohr@aol.com or (904) 246-7603.

Some of the cases won by Bohr & Harrington include: Sims v. Apfel, 120 S.Ct. 2080 (2000); Vuxta v. Comm’r of Soc. Sec., Case No. 06-11768, 2006 WL 2578705 (11^th Cir. Sept. 8, 2006); Sorn v. Barnhart, Case No. 04-16103, 178 Fed. Appx. 680 (9^th Cir. May 3, 2006); Nyberg v. Comm’r of Soc. Sec., Case No. 05-16286, 179 Fed. Appx. 589 (11^th Cir. May 2, 2006); Moore v. Barnhart, 405 F. 3d 1208 (11^th Cir. 2005); Kinnaird v. Barnhart, Case No. 04-14247, 138 Fed. Appx. 224 (11^th Cir. June 23, 2005); Vega v. Comm’r of Soc. Sec., 265 F.3d 1214 (11^th Cir. 2001); Newton v. Apfel, 209 F.3d 448 (5^th Cir. 2000); Stewart v. Apfel, Case No. 99-6132, 245 F.3d 793 (Table), 2000 U.S.App. LEXIS 33214 (11^th Cir. Dec. 20, 2000); Brown v. Apfel, 174 F.3d 59 (2d Cir. 1999); Konya v. Barnhart, 391 F. Supp.2d 273 (D. Del. 2005); Whitzell v. Barnhart, 379 F. Supp.2d 204 (D. Mass. 2005); Cook v. Barnhart, 347 F. Supp.2d 1125 (M.D. Ala. 2004); White v. Barnhart, 336 F. Supp.2d 1183 (N.D. Ala. 2004); McManus v. Barnhart, 2004 WL 3316303 (M.D. Fla. Dec. 14, 2004); Speights v. Barnhart, 2004 WL 3331910 (M.D. La. Nov. 30, 2004); Mead v. Barnhart, 2004 WL 2580744 (D.N.H. Nov. 15, 2004); Dowles v. Barnhart, 258 F. Supp.2d 478 (W.D. La. 2003); Leik v. Barnhart, 296 F. Supp.2d 1345 (M.D. Fla. 2003); Huggins v. Barnhart, 2003 WL 21946460 (W.D. Tenn. July 1, 2003); Barillaro v. Comm’r of Soc. Sec., 216 F. Supp.2d 121 (E.D.N.Y. 2002); Austin v. Massanari, 162 F. Supp.2d 517 (W.D. La. 2001); Davidson v. Comm’r of Soc. Sec., 2001 WL 1524358 (N.D. Miss. May 29, 2001); Lamb v. Massanari, 2001 WL 1910060 (W.D. Tenn. Dec. 12, 2001); Davis v. Apfel, 2000 WL 1658575 (M.D. Fla. Aug. 14, 2000); Sanders by Wakefield v. Apfel, 85 F. Supp.2d 1275 (M.D. Fla. 1999); and Richardson v. Apfel, 44 F. Supp.2d 1264 (M.D. Fla. 1998).

Ms. Bohr is also active in The Florida Bar, serving as a member of the Federal Court Practice Committee, the Continuing Legal Education Committee, the Executive Council of the Public Interest Law Section, and the Appellate Practice and Advocacy Section. She is also a member of the Jacksonville Bar Association and the Federal Bar Association, Jacksonville Chapter and, as a member of the Public Service Project of Jacksonville Area Legal Aid, Inc., handles pro bono cases in the areas of Social Security and juvenile dependency. Ms. Bohr is also a Past Chair of the Juvenile Court Rules Committee, The Florida Bar Council of Sections, and the Public Interest Law Section. She was a Barrister in the Chester Bedell Inn of Court from 1993 until 1996, and is an alumnus of Leadership Jacksonville. In 1996, Ms. Bohr was a finalist for a new United States Magistrate Judge position in Jacksonville, Florida.

Ms. Bohr received her undergraduate degree from the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio in 1974 and her law degree from the Antioch School of Law in Washington, D.C. in 1977. She is admitted to practice in Florida and the District of Columbia, as well as in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and the Middle District of Florida, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the First, Second, Third, Fifth, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits, the U.S. Court of Veterans Appeals, and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Esther O. Yip has specialized in Social Security cases for twenty years. She has been in private practice since 1995, primarily doing appellate work before the district court and the Appeals Council. Ms. Yip previously worked at Jacksonville Area Legal Aid, Inc., where she represented clients in Social Security, family law, welfare, and unemployment compensation cases. She was responsible for reviewing all hearing and Appeals Council denials received by attorneys and paralegals in the office to determine whether the case merited appeal. Ms. Yip has been a speaker at various seminars on Social Security disability law for attorneys, mental health workers, and AIDS counselors. She co-authored the original Significant Eleventh Circuit Social Security Cases published in West’s Social Security Reporting Service. She was also plaintiff’s counsel in two successful Social Security class action lawsuits in the Eleventh Circuit, Askin v. Shalala and Bentley v. Sellars.

Ms. Yip received her undergraduate degree from Florida State University and her law degree from Florida State University, College of Law, in Tallahassee, Florida. She is a member of both the Florida Bar and the California Bar.

For more information about Ms. Yip’s brief writing service, please contact her via e-mail: estheryip@comcast.net or at 433 39th Avenue, San Francisco, California 94121.

For more information regarding Ms. Bohr brief writing service, please contact her at Bohr & Harrington, LLC, 2337 Seminole Road, Atlantic Beach, Florida 32233; telephone (904) 246-7603; facsimile (904) 246-8884; e-mail: sarahhbohr@aol.com.