“Booker asked about the week I hurt my back on deployment before I'd finished my coffee. Nobody at the VA had asked me that in four years.”
Darnell P.
VA and Social Security disability
Served, came home, filed a claim. Same as you.
I spent eleven years in the Army and came home to San Antonio with a back that never healed right. Then I waited two years on a VA rating I filed alone.
Now my partners and I help veterans and disabled workers finish the trip home: the rating, the Social Security approval, and the back pay that was owed all along.
Booker Etheridge
Founding partner, U.S. Army veteran
Sample results
Claims that made it home
Four kinds of outcome we work toward. Each one came from the records, not from luck.
30% to 80%
VA rating increase, Army veteran
A back injury and PTSD tied to service with an outside doctor's opinion.
2025
Approved at hearing
Social Security disability, warehouse lead, 56
The judge found she couldn't stand long enough for her old job or any other.
2025
$38,400 back pay
VA appeal, Air Force veteran
The Board restored the effective date of his first claim.
2024
SSI approved
Reconsideration, former line cook
A treating doctor's statement filled the gap in the first denial.
2024
Sample results for illustration. Every claim turns on its own records, and past results don't guarantee or predict the outcome of yours.
Why homecoming
A claim is the last stretch of coming home
Leaving the service, or leaving a job your body can't do anymore, is only the start. Then come the forms, the exams, and the denial letter that shows up the week the savings run out.
We meet you at our Navarro Street office, by phone, or at your kitchen table if getting downtown is hard. We read every page of your records before we tell you anything, and then we tell you plainly what's missing.
Home visits across Bexar County when travel is hard
Spanish spoken in the office
One lawyer on your claim from start to finish
What we handle
Four doors we know by heart
Disability claims are the whole practice. Pick the one that sounds like yours.
VA disability compensation
First claims, new conditions and increases when a rating no longer fits how you live.
VA compensation claims
VA decision reviews and appeals
Higher-level review, a supplemental claim with new evidence, or the Board.
VA reviews and appeals
Social Security disability and SSI
Applications for workers who can't keep a job going, and SSI for people with little income.
Social Security disability and SSI
Social Security hearings
When the first two answers were no, we prepare you for the judge and sit beside you.
Social Security hearings
From clients
What clients told us after the letter came
Shared with their permission. Each claim is different, and none of these predicts how yours will go.
“Lorenza explained the hearing in Spanish to my mother and in English to me, and neither of us was lost.”
Rosa G.“Odis drove out to Converse because I couldn't sit in a car that long. We did the whole thing at my table.”
Wayne T.
The porch light's on
Bring the letter. We'll start from there.
Call or write with the date on your latest letter from the VA or Social Security. A lawyer or paralegal calls you back, and the first conversation costs nothing.
Fees are set by law and paid only from back pay you win. You may still owe out-of-pocket costs, such as copies of medical records or an outside doctor's opinion; we ask before we spend any.