Law Offices of Lawrence D. Rohlfing

Invalid industries and double counting industry subsectors and industry groups.

We must verify the reliability of VE testimony that cite JBP as the basis for job numbers.

Using the tools of the trade to understand why VE testimony is opaque.

Drawing lessons form Brace v. Saul

POMS provides greater insight into the split decision.

The dishonesty of expert witnesses unveiled.

ALJ rejects VE testimony and accepts the ORS via Occu Collect

Why is an R2 occupation not simple? Because the DOT is not unidimensional. Work fields, temperaments, worker functions, and the narrative list of job duties.

Part 2 of the analysis of simple work using the data code embedded in the DOT number.

A brief look at literacy and its requirements in the work setting.

I call this progress in the war on bogus vocational expert testimony.

Let's Make a Deal ... ALJ malfeasance

ORS and O*NET accepted by ALJ to prove no jobs.

Another profile in ... not courage

When courts affirm bogus testimony, we all lose.

A bad vocational expert that gives wholly unsupported testimony.

A court's comments about numerosity, the DOT, and VE testimony.

An underinclusive ruling and overinclusive POMS provision.

A review of the basics ... that we all need to reinforce

The publication should always be tested. Example 2.

The publication should always be tested. Example 1.

Differentiating between numbers of jobs as an example and an occupation as an example aggregating to numbers of jobs.

How many light unskilled jobs are there ... using Helpers - Production Workers as the example.

We examine the doctrine in Culbertson and Smith.

A new report from OccuCollect. Providing data for helpers-production workers as an example of contact with coworkers, teamwork, and public. https://californiasocialsecurityattorney.blogspot.com//occ

Bad news coming for non-attorney representatives -- they will likely be held to the same standard as attorneys. That's good news for claimants.

Part 4 of the Furniture-Rental Consultant series. Another reason to eliminate NAICS 532100.

My first impressions of Job Browser Pro 1.7

VE relies on Job Browser Pro but JBP states much lower numbers of jobs: mail clerk and office helper.

Sit/Stand Option; Sitting vs. Standing/Walking at Will; Accommodation; and SSR 83-12

SSR 83-10 and deference -- no.

Anticipating new job numbers and keeping ahead of the vocational experts.

The equal distribution method of estimating job numbers is not reliable.

If the limitation is sit 6 s/w 2 ... there are 8,259 jobs.

Does the post hoc analysis of risk matter in SS cases in federal court?

They are not election clerks, cutter-and-paster, or document preparer but they are out there - 600,000 of them.

Job Browser Pro is not infallible and in this case it is wrong.

55,000 jobs subject to erosion on multiple fronts.

Using the ORS to show past relevant work is different than described in the DOT.

Electrical and Electronic Equipment Assemblers (SOC 51-2022) review based on the Dictionary of Occupational Titles, Occupational Outlook Handbook, Occupational Employment Quarterly, and Job Browser Pro.

Disassembling the notion sedentary work requires 6 hours of sitting -- at least some require more sitting.

Younger individual, light, seizure precautions, and mental limits - using a minimalist approach.

Focusing on Office Helper -- VE disqualified as unreliable.

Tools for the tool belt.

Getting a better grasp of the recurring sit-stand option.

Making use of a decision that went the wrong way:

Fewer than 17,000 sedentary and 69,000 light jobs as packers and packagers, hand without considering any other limitation, even minor limits on sitting, standing, walking.

A physician that willingly misrepresents board status cannot be trusted on substantive issues.

Post hearing development and the 5-day rule as applied to vocational expert testimony.

Word Processors and Typists -- Addresser does not exist in significant numbers, if it exists at all.

The ORS has changed and eliminated important categories of data ...

Data People Things, Work Fields, MPSMS codes, and Temperaments.

A review of the components of SVP per the ORS

Election clerks, document preparers -- general office clerks -- analyzed using the DOT, SCO, OOH, O*NET, and ORS. Less than 5,000 jobs and none are simple repetitive.

No jobs for light work, no production pace and occasional contact with others

Cashiers with a sit-stand option and not more than six hours of standing/walking in a day = zero full-time jobs.

Numbers of general office clerks by exertion per the ORS.

General Office Clerks are not simple repetitive work per the DOT.

The deference doctrine, oh my.

Medium Exertion and Standing/Walking Six Hours in an Eight-Hour Day

The are No Sedentary Helpers - Production Workers

Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers, about 90,000 unskilled jobs based on O*NET training time estimates.

Occu Collect job number calculator - Using ORS data.

The short answer is, NO.

Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers (SOC 51-9061) job numbers inspected, tested, sorted, sampled, and weighed,

Thus, if you are looking for current occupational information you should use the O*Net.

Garment Sorter and six hours of standing/walking