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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you for clarifying that attorneys at the Board only have to review case files containing a median of 2,500 pages of medical records and write a multi-page decision, all within eight hours.

I’m sure that will be of great relief to applicants for Board positions who erroneously believed that they would have to regularly review tens of thousands of pages daily.[/quote]

I think it still sounds like federal sh#tlaw kind of like finding out your quota in the local SSDI mill isn't so bad. [/quote]

From my experience at the Board, few attorneys read the entire case file. The ones who do usually get fired pretty quickly (or work extensive unpaid overtime) because it isn't possible to read 2,500 pages (or more) and write a 10 page decision in eight hours. It's an open secret that most Board attorneys don't read the case file. In fact, when I joined the Board, the Board's training staff told my class of new attorneys to not read the entire case file. If management didn't know that before the union survey, they sure as heck are aware now following the union survey since the quota was the number one concern among Board attorneys (the number two concern being the mistreatment of employees). Ultimately, the ones who suffer the most are the veterans who are denied a [i]de novo[/i] review of their cases.[/quote]

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