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Veterans Benefits Advocacy DVD
A Training Guide to Representing Veterans in VA Benefits Claims

Ronald B. Abrams, Esq.
Barton F. Stichman, Esq.

$300*
6 hours on DVD
ISBN 978-1-4224-4544-0

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About the Trainers Barton F. Stichman, Esq. helped found NVLSP in 1980, and currently serves as its co-director and lead litigator. Bart has devoted his entire legal professional career to assisting veterans and their families obtain benefits, and has earned over $100 million in VA benefits for his clients over the past 30 years. Bart is co-author and editor of the Veterans Benefits Manual. He has served as President of the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims Bar Association and as Chair or Co-Chair of the Veterans Affairs Committee of the Administrative Law Section of the American Bar Association. Ronald B. Abrams, Esq. has been with NVLSP since 1989 and currently serves as its Joint Executive Director. Ron began his career at the Philadelphia regional office of the VA, and helped to draft the VA Adjudication Procedures Manual M21-1. He has conducted 200+ training sessions for many national service organizations, as well as for many state bar associations, Legal Services Corporation-funded offices, the National Legal Aid and Defender Association, the National Association of Elder Law Attorneys, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Ron is editor and co-author of the Veterans Benefits Manual. About the National Veterans Legal Services Program NVLSP is a Washington, D.C. - based independent, nonprofit, veterans service organization dedicated to advocating for veterans benefits. NVLSP accomplishes its mission by providing veterans organizations, service officers and attorneys with training and educational publications to enable them to help veterans and their dependents obtain all of the benefits that they deserve, and by representing veterans and their dependents who are seeking benefits before the VA and in court. More information at www.nvlsp.org

Filmed before a live audience in high-quality digital format, Veterans Benefits Advocacy provides an introduction to, and comprehensive training on, this complex new area of the law. Presented by Ron Abrams and Bart Stichman, co-directors of NVLSP, and the country's premier veterans benefits attorneys, this 6-hour DVD offers legal, administrative, and practical guidance on how attorneys can consider expanding their practice to represent veterans before the VA and why they should. It also covers the criteria for entitlement to VA disability benefits and the governing rules of practice and procedure.

Topics and Highlights include:

• The Entitlement Criteria for Service-Connected Disability Compensation
• The Criteria for Assignment of the Appropriate Disability Rating
• Continuation of Disability Ratings
• The VA Adjudication Process for an Original Claim for Disability Benefits
• Methods for Obtaining Disability Compensation Even After a Final VA Denial
• Judicial Review of a Final VA Decision Denying a Claim
• The New Rules Governing Attorneys' Fees
• General Advocacy Tips for Attorneys in Practicing Before the VA
• Obtaining and Interpreting the Documents in a VA Claims File
• Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC)
• Pension

Training Notes for Veterans Benefits Advocacy DVD

The DVD is accompanied by a 170-page text that serves as a written guideline to the material discussed by the presenters. It also includes important supplementary materials such as:

• A Glossary of Common Definitions and Abbreviations;
• Sample Diagnostic Codes used by the VA to rate various disorders;
• Rate Charts for VA Compensation and Pension; and
• Sample Documents from a VA Claims File.

Packed with insight, analysis, and battle-tested advocacy tips from practitioners on the frontlines of veterans benefits law, Veterans Benefits Advocacy DVD is the perfect training tool for attorneys interested in expanding their practice while helping veterans obtain the benefits they deserve.

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