In the year 2000, Secretary Donna Shalala appointed him to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Coordination Committee. He has also served on the executive committee of the Social Security Disability Committee of the American Trial Lawyers Association, as a past chairperson of the Chicago Bar Association Social Security Law Committee and is a sustaining member of the National Organization of Social Security Claimants’ Representatives. Jeff has appeared on a variety of radio and television programs related to Social Security law, including “60 Minutes.”
Jim Brown has worked for several years as an attorney for The Law Offices of Jeff Rabin & Associates, Ltd., a friendly and collegial law firm that concentrates in Social Security/SSI disability cases. Jim’s diverse and interesting legal career began in 1990 as a legal aid attorney for Will County Legal Assistance in Joliet, Illinois. He spent five years in Joliet representing low-income people in a wide range of legal matters — defending people who were being evicted from their homes, helping victims of domestic violence to obtain orders of protection, and helping people obtain needed government benefits such as food stamps, SSI and unemployment compensation. Jim’s legal aid career included a two-year stint as an attorney for Utah Legal Services in Salt Lake City, where he focused in SSI and public benefits cases. His legal aid career culminated in a five-year stint as the Director of Legal Services for CARPLS (an innovative legal aid program specializing in advice, referrals and brief services) in Chicago.
Barry O’Lynnger is an associate attorney with The Law Offices of Jeffrey A. Rabin & Associates. He focuses his practice on disability appeals and has represented thousands of claimants in both Florida and Illinois.
