ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sarah H. Bohr is an appellate attorney who has specialized in Social Security law for 30 years. She first began handling Social Security cases in 1978 as a non - attorney representative at Jacksonville Area Legal Aid, Inc., while she was waiting her bar results. In her distinguished career, she has worked in all areas of practice of Social Security law, from administrative representation, district court appeals (including class action litigation), circuit court appeals, and litigating before the Supreme Court of the United States.
Ms. Bohr is a partner in Bohr & Harrington, LLC, at a Jacksonville, Florida law firm offering a national Social Security brief writing service. She has written briefs for filing in district courts all across the country as well as in the First, Second, Third, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and successfully argued Sims v. Apfel, 530 United States 103 (2000) before the Supreme Court. She is past President of the National Organization of Social Security Claimants' Representatives ("NOSSCR") and was a 2007 recipient of NOSSCR's Eileen P. Sweeney's Distinguished Service Award. In February 2008, Ms. Bohr was also presented with a professionalism award by the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Orlando Division, for her work as court appointed Inventory Attorney over 72 Social Security Federal Court Cases that were previously handled by a suspended Social Security attorney.
Ms. Bohr is a frequent lecturer on Social Security issues at national conferences and had the privilege of testifying before the Social Security Subcommittee during her term as President of NOSSCR.
Ms. Bohr obtained her law degree from Antioch School of Law in Washington D.C. and previously worked as a legal service attorney for 20 years at Jacksonville Area Legal Aid, Inc. She serves as a vice chair of The Florida Bar Federal Court Practice Commitee and is a member of the Bar's CLE Committee and the Executive Council of the Public Interest Law Section. She is also an alumni of the Chester Bedell Inn of Court and Leadership, Jacksonville.
In her free time, Ms. Bohr is an accomplised amature ballroom dancer, and dance at national ballroom dance competitions with her professional partner, Pavel (Pasha) Cherdantsau.
Ms. Bohr is a partner in Bohr & Harrington, LLC, at a Jacksonville, Florida law firm offering a national Social Security brief writing service. She has written briefs for filing in district courts all across the country as well as in the First, Second, Third, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and successfully argued Sims v. Apfel, 530 United States 103 (2000) before the Supreme Court. She is past President of the National Organization of Social Security Claimants' Representatives ("NOSSCR") and was a 2007 recipient of NOSSCR's Eileen P. Sweeney's Distinguished Service Award. In February 2008, Ms. Bohr was also presented with a professionalism award by the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Orlando Division, for her work as court appointed Inventory Attorney over 72 Social Security Federal Court Cases that were previously handled by a suspended Social Security attorney.
Ms. Bohr is a frequent lecturer on Social Security issues at national conferences and had the privilege of testifying before the Social Security Subcommittee during her term as President of NOSSCR.
Ms. Bohr obtained her law degree from Antioch School of Law in Washington D.C. and previously worked as a legal service attorney for 20 years at Jacksonville Area Legal Aid, Inc. She serves as a vice chair of The Florida Bar Federal Court Practice Commitee and is a member of the Bar's CLE Committee and the Executive Council of the Public Interest Law Section. She is also an alumni of the Chester Bedell Inn of Court and Leadership, Jacksonville.
In her free time, Ms. Bohr is an accomplised amature ballroom dancer, and dance at national ballroom dance competitions with her professional partner, Pavel (Pasha) Cherdantsau.