10 SSDI Blogs Worth Reading If You Practice Disability Law
The disability law blogs that publish substantive, current material rather than recycled overviews, plus the official sources worth following alongside them.
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Most lists of disability law blogs are affiliate filler. This one is short on purpose. These are the sources we check when we are researching our own data studies, and the reason each one is here.
Firm and advocate blogs
Bross & Frankel. Attorney-bylined posts covering New Jersey and Pennsylvania practice, with genuine procedural detail rather than overview content. Useful when a question turns on regional adjudication practice.
Cuddigan Law. Covers both Social Security disability and veterans disability out of Nebraska and Iowa. The overlap between the two programs is badly served elsewhere, and this is one of the better places to read about it.
LaPorte Law Firm. Consistently strong on procedure, including the federal court appeal stage that most firm blogs skip entirely.
Nash Disability Law. Chicago-based, high publishing frequency, and written for claimants in plain language that is worth studying if you are trying to improve your own intake explanations.
Law Offices of Nancy L. Cavey. Prolific, and unusually strong on long term disability and ERISA alongside SSDI, which is the adjacent practice area most disability firms under-serve.
Keefe Disability Law. Massachusetts-based with a deep library organized by condition, which makes it a useful reference when you are assessing an unfamiliar impairment.
Marc Whitehead & Associates. Covers SSDI, veterans, and long term disability, with more attention to the appeals ladder than most.
Axis Legal Leads runs an exclusive SSDI lead marketplace. exclusive SSDI leads.
The large national operations
Atticus. The best-maintained consumer-facing disability library on the internet, and it keeps its figures current rather than letting them go stale. Worth reading as a competitor analysis as much as a reference.
Allsup. Forty years in the program, and its blog reflects that. More trend and policy oriented than the firm blogs, which makes it useful for market context.
The source everyone should be reading and almost nobody is
The Social Security Administration's own statistical program. The Annual Statistical Report on the Disability Insurance Program contains award rates by stage, diagnostic group breakdowns, and state-level tables that settle most arguments about how the program actually behaves. It is free, it is authoritative, and citing it will make your own content outrank the firms citing each other.
NOSSCR is the other one. It is the specialist bar for claimants representatives, and it is where fee cap changes, regulatory shifts, and practice developments surface before they reach the general legal press.
A note on why we published this
We sell SSDI leads. We also read this material daily, because you cannot price a lead in a practice area you do not understand. If you write one of the blogs above and we have described it inaccurately, tell us and we will fix it. If we have missed a blog that publishes real, current material, send it and we will consider adding it when we refresh this list.