Post by sta on Sept 3, 2021 12:54:16 GMT -5
Do retired ALJ is ever come back as claimants’ representatives? Some sort of professional reincarnation? Is there a non-compete or ethics clause that bans it?
I’ve never seen it personally in my little slice of the OHO world. Just wondering if it anyone has observed it in your neck of the woods.
While not terribly common, I have known of an ALJ or two who had done this. However, I don't believe in either case the ALJ had stuck around until retirement age and then took up rep work. They had left earlier on for one reason or another...
I took an early out retirement, and the rule was at the time you had to wait a year before doing rep work. So I did that for a few years. It is an open question whether it was more stressful processing 500 cases as an ALJ versus serving as a rep with a docket of 20 to 50 a year. Different kinds of stress were involved.