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I don't believe you need an SSDI lawyer located geographically near you. A good friend of mine highly recommends an outfit in Chicago that specializes in these claims. We live in NJ. They just got him on it after a two year fight, with the back payments and immediate access to Medicare. His contact at the firm appeared at all the necessary actual hearings - I think there were only two. He had to undergo a number of appeals first; he's got Lymnes Disease and his only symptom is fatigue. I can dig out the name and # if anyone's interested. I talked to someone there and she told me that PD is not difficult if you know what to say because it's a "listed cause" or some such terminology. I'm going to use them right from the start when I'm ready. Although someone on this list, a regular contributor I believe, is involved with an operation (non-profit?) that does it nationally and does not take the maximum allowed cut (up to $4,000 in back benefits) as all the commercial firms do. That might be worth finding more about. It just seems so ludicrous to refuse SSDI to a PWP who is not working. Who the hell is going to hire someone with PD? I don't believe I would have.