Why The Unemployed Can't Find An Unemployment? And Why It Upset Me!!

Employees do need to learn that different kinds of employment attorneys should be considered necessary while still employed, if for no other reason than to keep them from making the mistakes employees make that prevent them from obtaining unemployment when things finally take a sharp turn south, at work. You have rights, but you have to invoke .. use them when you still have maneuvering room.

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But, with only a handful of states as the exception to the no lawyer required rule .. unemployed people might want to search out those with the greater experience at unemployment appeal hearings. They also have the more reasonable fees as compared to "unemployment attorneys".

Helping You Win Appeals For Benefits Isn't Lucrative

I could see that clearly, after I did my research on ways to monetize a website for claimants about getting unemployment.

However, I was obliged to listen to my conscience before my head .. I too could have written all day long about strategies for employers to use to deny unemployment benefits.

B2B creates repeat business especially when it comes to unemployment .. therefore most that offer help follow the money trail or the path to offering services as a form of free advertising for more lucrative legal issues .. such as defending an employer against all those post employment complaints employees file .. too late to do any good, but employees have to protect themselves from liabilities .. so who do they call?

A lawyer .. for advice.

But, come on .. how can free legal help keep up with the demand for unemployment claimants needing help with little ol' unemployment appeals that could be won .. if they only knew what it really meant to be a pro se litigant at an unemployment hearing where you have to promote your side of the story objectively, like an attorney would.

Face it, Free legal can't help everyone .. there's not enough time in the day and they may be confined by who they can help because I'll bet they operate on grants and donations and they might be there trying to make a name for themselves .. because they are responsible for many precedents.

The ironies in life are the telltale signs that something's not quite right. But when you're counting on getting unemployment benefits that should be yours to avoid losing the house .. whose got time for the ironies.

You need to find the solution to them.

The Job Experience That Influenced My Opinion About How Unemployment Works .. And Unemployment Lawyers

I detested cold calling attorneys because they were always way out of line with their fees for an informal quasi judicial unemployment appeal hearing I'd put the case file together for.

I was also capped by my employer as to how much I could pay for representation, so I became a good negotiator of flat fees.

Still, even though I avoided it when I could, it was a necessary unpleasantness more often that I liked, when no one on the list could handle a hearing due to date, time or conflict.

The list consisted of hundreds of non-attorney reps and a scattering of real attorneys, however the ones I went to again and again were mostly non-attorney reps on my personal favorites list .. which was much shorter than the company list.

There was a short list of states (I've learned it's longer for claimants) that I was required to provide a lawyer for.

However, most states presented zero problems and allowed non-attorneys to represent the interest of others at UI hearing.

I suspect this is because unemployment hearings and most board level appeals are considered QUASI legal. (It's when you keep losing appeals lead to real legal court).

Getting the picture yet? Most states would prefer you trust in the "mandated impartiality" of the hearing officer and attend your first hearing alone because appeals just get tougher and tougher to win.

However, this subtle form of grinding the unemployed down to a non-threat is actually taken a step further in some non-lawyer states.

Although they tell you a non-attorney is allowed to represent you at the hearing .. they also say the representative cannot charge a fee for the hearing.

I know how cost control manages the work around to this .. but it is still a problem for employee .. and encourages me in my continued logic of exposing the hidden values of maintaining widespread ignorance about how unemployment really works.

I'm sure any state may defend their positions and may take credit for protecting us from being taken advantage of .. but still, I'll bet even these states encourage you to go it alone to the hearing pro se .. on their website.

When it comes to getting unemployment pro se and a state allows an employer to be represented by non-attorneys because they are supposedly not being charged for the representation, yet tells a claimant their only option is to hire an attorney at 10 times the cost the employer had to pay .. just to be represented ..

That's the scam and it's my opinion that it is meant to enable a state to deny more people unemployment benefits based on keeping them ignorant about the realities of how it all really works.

Any state could register and vet non-attorney representatives .. it make sense to do so.

The message becomes clear the longer you wallow in this system. Employees are the cattle and we're herded into going it alone to the slaughter.

This is the real attrition of the unemployment system and what allows companies the likes of TALX get away with what they do to undermine the noble intent of the system.

States Requiring Unemployment Lawyers