When a serious medical condition prevents you from continuing to work, the loss of income can create financial uncertainty at the same time you are dealing with treatment, medications, appointments, and changes in your daily life.
Kenneth G. Marks Law Firm helps people in Newport Beach pursue Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits. Our practice is devoted exclusively to Social Security disability law, and we bring more than 40 years of legal experience to the clients we represent.
We assist with disability claims, appeals, medical and employment evidence, Social Security paperwork, and other issues that may affect a claim. We work to understand how your physical or mental health condition interferes with your ability to maintain employment and help present those limitations clearly.
If you are looking for a Newport Beach Social Security disability lawyer, contact Kenneth G. Marks Law Firm for a free consultation. Attorney fees are contingent on successfully obtaining benefits and are subject to Social Security Administration approval.
Need Help With Your SSDI or SSI Claim?
If a medical condition is keeping you from working, we can review your situation and explain how Kenneth G. Marks Law Firm may be able to help.
How We Help Newport Beach Residents With Disability Claims
People seek Social Security disability benefits because of many different medical conditions.
Some are dealing with chronic back, neck, or joint problems. Others have neurological disorders, heart or respiratory disease, autoimmune conditions, cancer, severe migraines, chronic pain, depression, anxiety, or several medical problems at the same time.
A diagnosis alone does not explain what someone can or cannot sustain during a workday.
We want to understand your symptoms, treatment, previous work, and the limitations that now prevent you from continuing to earn a living.
Our representation may include:
- Reviewing your Social Security disability claim
- Examining medical records and treatment history
- Reviewing your previous employment and job duties
- Identifying issues that may affect the claim
- Helping document physical or mental limitations
- Preparing and submitting required forms and records
- Communicating with Social Security regarding your case
- Representing you throughout the disability process
Social Security allows claimants to appoint an attorney or another qualified representative to assist with a claim for benefits.
Every case is different. We approach a disability claim based on the individual client’s medical history, work background, treatment, symptoms, and limitations.
Newport Beach Residents Have Many Different Career Backgrounds
Newport Beach has an employment base that extends well beyond its coastal and tourism businesses.
City planning materials have identified professional, scientific, management, and administrative services as a significant employment category for residents, along with finance, insurance, real estate, and related occupations. Newport Center and Fashion Island also form a regional business and commercial area that includes professional offices, retail, hotels, entertainment, and other uses.
That variety can create very different disability issues.
Someone working in finance, real estate, law, management, technology, or another professional occupation may spend much of the day concentrating on detailed information, using a computer, communicating with clients or coworkers, making decisions, meeting deadlines, and maintaining a predictable schedule.
A person working in hospitality, retail, food service, maintenance, or another customer-facing occupation may face much greater physical demands involving standing, walking, carrying, reaching, and maintaining a steady pace.
A serious medical condition can interfere with either type of work.
We want to know what your job actually required and why your health no longer allows you to perform those duties consistently.
A Professional Career Can Still Become Impossible to Sustain
People sometimes associate disability with physically demanding work, but serious health conditions can end professional and office-based careers as well.
Someone may still be physically capable of walking into an office while being unable to perform the cognitive or scheduling demands of the job.
Consider a Newport Beach financial or professional-services employee who develops severe migraines or a neurological condition. The person may have difficulty with screen use, concentration, memory, fatigue, or unpredictable periods when symptoms make productive work impossible.
Another professional may develop severe back or neck problems. Even without heavy lifting, sitting at a desk for prolonged periods may increase pain and require frequent changes of position or unscheduled breaks.
Depression, anxiety, and other mental health conditions can also affect professional work. Concentration, decision-making, workplace communication, attendance, and the ability to manage deadlines may become increasingly difficult.
We look at whether the person can sustain the demands of employment over time rather than whether he or she can perform an isolated task.
Newport Beach’s Hospitality Economy Creates Different Work Demands
Tourism and hospitality remain meaningful parts of Newport Beach’s local economy. Recent City materials concerning destination marketing describe visitor spending across hotels, restaurants, retail, attractions, and other local businesses.
People working in those settings often have a different workday from someone in a professional office.
A hotel employee may spend hours standing or walking. Restaurant workers may need to move quickly, carry items, bend, reach, and remain on their feet for much of a shift. Retail employees may combine customer interaction with standing, walking, repetitive hand use, and merchandise handling.
Someone with arthritis, degenerative disc disease, neuropathy, serious knee or hip problems, heart disease, or another chronic condition may gradually lose the ability to keep up with those demands.
A person may still be able to stand for 20 or 30 minutes or walk through a grocery store. The problem may be sustaining that activity for hours at a time, several days each week.
That distinction can matter when we are trying to understand how a medical condition affects employment.
When a Chronic Condition Disrupts a Career You Built Over Many Years
A disability can be particularly difficult when someone has spent years building a career and expected to continue working.
Many people try numerous ways to remain employed before considering Social Security disability benefits.
They may reduce their schedule, take more time off, work remotely when possible, change responsibilities, ask coworkers for assistance, or arrange medical appointments around work.
For some people, those changes work temporarily.
Eventually, symptoms may progress to the point where continued employment is no longer realistic.
A person with an autoimmune condition may experience worsening fatigue, pain, and unpredictable flare-ups. Someone with heart disease may lose the stamina needed to complete a full day. A worker undergoing cancer treatment may struggle with fatigue, medication effects, appointments, or recovery periods.
Someone with severe depression or anxiety may find that concentration, attendance, and workplace interaction become harder despite treatment.
We want to understand what you did to remain employed and what eventually made those efforts unsuccessful.
Your Income or Profession Does Not Determine Whether You Can Become Disabled
Newport Beach is often associated with successful businesses, professional careers, and higher-income occupations.
A serious medical condition does not distinguish between people based on profession or career success.
An executive can develop Parkinson’s disease. A business owner can be diagnosed with cancer. A physician can develop severe arthritis. A real estate professional can experience a serious neurological disorder. An office employee can develop chronic pain that makes prolonged sitting impossible.
Someone who previously earned a substantial income may find it difficult to accept that a medical condition has changed his or her ability to work.
The Social Security disability process requires us to focus on the medical and employment facts.
We look at your previous work, your current health, your treatment, and the limitations that now prevent you from sustaining employment.
Why Choose Kenneth G. Marks Law Firm?
Kenneth G. Marks Law Firm focuses exclusively on Social Security disability law.
For more than 40 years, we have represented people whose physical or mental health conditions have prevented them from maintaining employment.
We understand that clients may contact us after careers that look very different from one another. Some have spent decades doing physical work. Others have worked in management, finance, healthcare, professional services, hospitality, retail, or office positions.
Our role is to understand your individual circumstances.
We review the claim, examine medical and employment issues, explain what may require attention, and help clients understand what is happening with their case.
We also believe clients should be able to ask questions and receive clear explanations about their representation.
No attorney can promise that Social Security will approve a particular disability claim. We can provide knowledgeable legal guidance and work to present the available evidence supporting your case.
When Should You Contact a Social Security Disability Lawyer?
You do not need to understand every Social Security rule before speaking with an attorney.
You may still be working but finding that your symptoms are making each week harder. You may have reduced your schedule or changed your duties and still be struggling. You may have recently stopped working because your health no longer allows you to maintain your previous responsibilities.
You may also have started a disability claim and be concerned that your records do not fully explain what you are experiencing.
A free consultation gives us an opportunity to learn more about your circumstances.
We can discuss your medical conditions, treatment, previous work, symptoms, and current limitations. From there, we can explain how Kenneth G. Marks Law Firm may be able to assist.
You do not need to collect every medical record or resolve every question before contacting us.
Serving Social Security Disability Clients Throughout Newport Beach
We represent people throughout Newport Beach and Orange County who are unable to maintain employment because of serious physical or mental health conditions.
Newport Beach includes several distinct residential and commercial areas, from Newport Center and Fashion Island to Corona del Mar, Balboa Peninsula, Newport Coast, and other parts of the city. Newport Center and Fashion Island remain a significant regional center for professional offices, retail, hotels, entertainment, and other commercial activity.
Whether your career involved professional work, healthcare, hospitality, retail, management, physical labor, or another occupation, your disability claim should reflect your own circumstances.
We look at the work you have performed, the treatment you have received, the symptoms you experience, and why those limitations now prevent you from maintaining employment.
From there, we can explain how we may be able to help.
Talk With a Newport Beach Social Security Disability Lawyer
If your health has made continued employment impossible, you may be facing financial uncertainty while also trying to manage medical treatment and changes in your daily life.
Kenneth G. Marks Law Firm helps Newport Beach residents with SSDI, SSI, disability claims, appeals, and other Social Security disability matters. Our practice is devoted exclusively to Social Security disability law, backed by more than 40 years of legal experience.
Contact Kenneth G. Marks Law Firm for a free consultation with a Newport Beach Social Security disability lawyer.
Attorney fees are contingent on successfully obtaining benefits and are subject to Social Security Administration approval.
Kenneth G. Marks
Social Security Disability Attorney
