About Maria Elena
Maria Elena Bermudez earned her Juris Doctor from Widener University Delaware School of Law in 2007. She completed the law program after earlier studies, and she moved quickly into advocacy work focused on disability benefits. Her legal education provided the foundation for practice in administrative and appellate settings.
Early in her career Bermudez set up a practice aimed at helping people navigate Social Security disability systems. She is the founder of Disability Advocacy Group, LLC and serves as the managing lawyer of Disability Advocacy Group by Law Office of Maria E. Bermudez, LLC. Those roles reflect a practice built around individual representation, paperwork preparation and administrative hearings.
Bermudez is admitted to practice in New Jersey and Pennsylvania and is also admitted to the Third Circuit. She represents claimants in hearings before administrative law judges and handles appeals when cases move beyond the agency level. She is a current member of the National Organization of Social Security Claimant Representatives, the professional association that serves attorneys and advocates in the Social Security disability field.
Her day-to-day work involves counseling clients on eligibility, preparing and filing claims and assembling medical and vocational evidence. She appears for hearings, cross-examines vocational and medical witnesses and files appeals when necessary. The practice combines case management and courtroom work. It also requires close attention to procedural deadlines and the evolving medical records that support a claimant's case.
Colleagues and clients describe Bermudez as methodical in preparation and clear in explaining the steps of a claim. She balances document-intensive work with time spent in hearings. The practice she leads is structured to move cases from initial application through reconsideration, hearing and, when required, federal appeal.
Her office is listed as the Law Office of Maria E Bermudez, LLC. She continues to participate in professional education and organizational activities related to Social Security disability law. She now practices representing Social Security disability claimants in administrative proceedings and in appeals in the Third Circuit.
