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OPM Medical Retirement: Tomorrow and the day after

February 1, 2019

Tomorrow is for delay; to procrastinate, the day after. Isn’t that the adage that recognizes what is truly going on — of saying, “Oh, I will get to that tomorrow”, but when asked about a project you dread (perhaps the unfinished novel that has sat in the bottom desk drawer for the past year; the basement that needs cleaning; the shed where all unused items and discarded castaways need “straightening up”, etc.), it is always to be accomplished “the day after tomorrow”. […]

Legal Representation on Federal Disability Retirement Claims: Proof

October 11, 2018

What constitutes it, and how do we learn of its sufficiency or relevance? Take the following scenario: A group of boys are gathered together along with Billy, the “town bully”. A discussion of sorts ensues — who is the toughest kid in town? Some of the boys offer that “Dave” from across town is the meanest and toughest — a black belt in Hapkido, a state wrestling champion and a middle line backer for the high school football team. […]

OPM Retirement for Mental or Physical Incapacity: Of persuasive effect

September 28, 2018

What does it mean to possess “of persuasive effect”? If a person argues in a debate for endless hours, and at the end of it all, various people from the watchful audience turn aside to one another and declare, “Well, he sure was persuasive, but I’m still going to vote for the other guy” — what can such a statement mean? If an acknowledgment of persuasion nevertheless results in an opposite conclusion, […]

Attorney Representation for OPM Disability Claims: Mountain climbing

June 21, 2018

Whether for the exhilaration of the activity or the sheer confrontation of the challenge looming, it is a sport that captures the imagination of the fitness-enthusiast, the romantic and the eccentric loner alike. It is the sport that engages the competitive spirit not against another’s ability or the coordinated capacity of large teams having practiced together, but against the inert heights of peaks and impervious rock faces that show no emotion as to one’s success or failure. […]

Attorney Representation for OPM Disability Claims: Tone and tenor

January 23, 2018

In music as well as in grammar, the first word remains somewhat constant, in that it refers to the sound itself – how it sounds, the decibel level, the texture and coherence, etc. Between the two, it is the tenor that alters, for in music, it refers to the male voice intermediate between the bass and the alto, while in grammar it is the content and substance of that which is said. […]

Disability Retirement for Federal Government Employees: Admitting defeat

December 27, 2017

It is probably the single most difficult thing to do in life, and its inability reflects upon the abysmal state of education, both higher and lower. The manner in which education is perpetuated – where “right answers” receive accolades and admitting of defeat merely alters the pecking order of who is admired and who are relegated to […]

Attorney Representation for OPM Disability Claims: The strange story of X

December 7, 2017

He was always reserved, and became even more so in the last few years. Never one to first say hello, but always quick with a smile whenever anyone passed by his desk, those in the office kept away from him – not because he was unlikeable, or even because he himself initiated any enmity or scorn, but merely because that was the way things were. […]

Federal Employee Disability Retirement: Game changers

October 21, 2017

Rarely do we have advantages in life. Instead, most challenges are full of obstacles in our way, advantages tipped in favor of another’s, and an imbalance that seems to make life’s lottery of spectral choices a weighted unfairness that no amount of complaining seems to make a difference about. We hear about them; yet, they rarely attend to our own needs nor join “our team”. […]

Disability Retirement for Federal Employees: Content

September 21, 2017

What do we mean when we distinguish between “content” as opposed to “context”? Are the two always distinguishable, and if so, are there any features or characteristics that make inseparability a potential difficulty? We have all heard the famous phrase from King’s speech about being judged by the “content” of one’s character, as opposed to the “color” of one’s skin – a deviation of sorts from the more customary reference to the distinction made between appearance and reality, […]

Federal Employee Disability Retirement: Once upon a time…

September 15, 2017

There are such fairytales, as well as reminiscences of a bygone era; or, when a traumatic event in one’s life bifurcates a “before” and differentiates from the “after”, such that we wanly smile and with eyes distant for yearning of a time now gone forever, we whisper to ourselves, “Once upon a time…” […]