re: Who is best disability lawyer in Baton Rouge?

Go to the Social Security website and apply online for disability. That will get the process started. There are some other things that will need to happen which involve extensive medical records and probably a trip to a disability determination doctor.

She will be denied the application. That’s when you contact an attorney. The attorney can’t do anything you can’t do for the initial application. They are more useful to appeal. Almost everyone who applies (with the exception of people requiring kidney dialysis and a couple other specific diagnoses) is denied on initial application. They will deny it but I’m convinced that’s their way of weeding out people. Only the ones who will follow through with an appeal get their disability.

The good news is it will be retroactive- at least to the application date but typically to the date the disability was significant enough to be a qualifying condition.