UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE - HEARING AND APPEAL - REQUEST FOR HEARING - CASE NO. 3

Lesson No. 5 - Hearings are easy, preparation is hard.

I'm sure this is known to most attorneys but not really understood by most Claimants. For the thirty minute hearing I had that eventually succeeded in getting the Claimant benefits, I would estimate that I put in over 40 hours of preparation work, which consisted of the appeal, investigative work, legal research, etc. Unemployment Insurance litigation may be administrative hearings but it does not mean that an attorney can enter a hearing with just a phone call, a quick review of the file and an appearance at the hearing.