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Social Security disability sample attorney brief

The ERE becomes a cited evidence plan organized around the five-step review and the hearing theory

The brief keeps stage, appeal posture, onset and insured-status facts, functional support, contradictory evidence, and missing medical development on the same file.

Renee JacksonALJ hearing preparationFederal claimAs of July 2026

1,842

ERE pages

96

Exhibits indexed

74

Cited encounters

3

Proof gaps

Attorney first read

Finding

The hearing is approaching and the treating-source record does not explain two material functional limitations.

Supporting record

A, E, and F section exhibits, work history, denial rationale, imaging, treatment notes, and functional evidence.

Recommended reviewOpen cited records, send the medical-source request, and approve the hearing outline.

Matter evidence

Every material input keeps its supporting source

Imaging findings

Cited exhibit and page

Document-backed

Need to alternate positions

Claimant function report

Client-reported

Sitting tolerance

No treating-source opinion in the file

Missing

Daily activities

Reports require attorney reconciliation

Conflicting

Open proof gaps

Treating-source statement on sitting and position changes
Updated medication side-effect evidence
Attorney resolution of inconsistent activity reports

Practice workup

Five-step evidence plan

The brief connects the procedural stage, vocational record, medical proof, and functional evidence without converting missing evidence into an outcome score.

Hearing development

Material contradictions and absent treating-source support become focused development tasks with exhibit-level references.

Prioritized next actions

Request the missing treating-source evidence
Resolve the activity-report conflict
Approve the cited hearing outline after reviewing every referenced exhibit

Primary authority posture

SSA sequential evaluation process

20 C.F.R. section 404.1520

Official SSA source for the sequential evaluation process.

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