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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Final offer came in today via email after 4 weeks (16 business days). [/quote]

Good luck! You will need it.[/quote]
nahhhh. most people survive the first six months just fine.

The open hostility and terrible working environment isnt really in full effect until that time.

The fact that so many people are still applying and accepting jobs at the Board when all of this information is readily available tells me how desperate people are for work.  [/quote]
Maybe change can come from within. Lawyers unite![/quote]

What everyone has said on here is true.  Its a truly awful place.  no amount of uniting is going to change that.  [/quote]

I agree.  The toxic work environment and high production rate adversely affects not only the employees, but also veterans. As seen in a study conducted by Stanford University, approximately 75 percent of BVA decisions that are appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (CAVC) contain serious errors necessitating remand. This means that for every 100 cases appealed to CAVC, 75 of them contain reversible errors. [i]See[/i] https://siepr.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/publications/19-005.pdf

I can't say that I'm surprised. Board attorneys are required to draft one decision every 8-10 hours. In that 8-10 hour period, each Board attorney has to read several hundred, even thousands of pages, and draft a 10-20 page decision. Most people can't do that. But, Board attorneys have to do that each and every day or face termination. So what do most Board attorneys do? Easy answer, most Board attorneys don't read through the entire case file. In other words, if a veteran submits 2,000 pages of evidence, the average attorney at the Board reads at most 100-200 pages of the case file. Unfortunately, this means that BVA decisions contain major errors both in fact and law that CAVC must address and remand. The system ultimately fails veterans because their cases are delayed by the endless cycle of remands. [/quote]

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