Roeschke Law, LLC

Focus and practice areas

Roeschke Law, LLC works on federal disability benefits for people in Arizona. The core of that work is Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income. The firm takes claims at the application stage and carries them through denials and appeals.

That appeals work includes hearings in front of an administrative law judge. Anyone who has had a claim denied knows the process moves in stages, and each stage has its own deadlines and evidence requirements. The firm handles those stages directly.

Two further areas appear on the firm's site. One is workers' compensation, covering denials, appeals and lump sum settlements. The other is long-term disability insurance, including claims governed by ERISA.

Why the mix makes sense

These areas share a common thread. In each one, a person with a medical condition applies for benefits, and an institution decides whether to pay. The institution might be the Social Security Administration, a state workers' compensation system or a private insurer.

The evidence needed looks similar across all three: medical records, treatment history, functional limitations, employment history. A firm that builds those files for SSDI claims already has the habits the other two require. In my opinion, that overlap explains the shape of the practice better than any list of services would.

How the team is built

The site names four attorneys: Kiel J. Roeschke, Lyndsey Fish-Ugorowski, Preston K. Flood and Brooke Michiels. Their names appear in the navigation on every page, which puts them in front of visitors early.

Kiel Roeschke is an attorney at the firm and holds the title of President of Disability Attorneys of Arizona. He earned his J.D. from New York Law School and a B.A. in Economics from Michigan State University. His practice focuses on Social Security Disability and Supplemental Security Income claims.

He represents clients at the initial application, at the Administrative Law Judge hearing and through the appeals that follow. That covers the full arc of a Social Security claim.

The other attorneys

Lyndsey Fish-Ugorowski is an attorney whose listed area of practice is administrative law. She is based in Toledo, Ohio. Administrative law fits the disability work closely, since Social Security appeals are administrative proceedings.

Preston K. Flood and Brooke Michiels also appear among the firm's attorneys. The site names them without adding biographical detail on the pages we reviewed.

Four attorneys makes for a small group. For a practice built around one federal benefits system and its neighbours, a group that size can keep everyone working in the same subject matter. As a reviewer, I read that as a deliberate choice about depth.

Where the firm works

Roeschke Law keeps three offices in Arizona. The main one is in Tempe. The other two are in Tucson and Phoenix.

Those three locations cover the two population centres in the state. Tempe and Phoenix are close together in the same metro area. Tucson is roughly two hours south, and it anchors the southern half of Arizona.

The firm lists service areas that include Scottsdale, Tempe, Chandler, Glendale, Mesa, Phoenix and Tucson. Those are the East Valley and West Valley suburbs around Phoenix plus the Tucson metro. The firm also states that it represents residents of the wider state.

What geography means for disability work

Social Security hearings happen at regional hearing offices. A firm with a physical presence in both Phoenix and Tucson can reach clients across a wide, thinly populated state. Arizona has long distances between its cities, and travel matters to people whose medical conditions limit how far they can go.

An office in each of the two main hubs cuts down that travel for many clients. It also means the firm's attorneys work regularly in both parts of the state.

What the record shows

The firm works on a contingency basis for its cases. It states that a fee arrives only when the client's claim succeeds. That arrangement is standard in Social Security disability work, where fees come out of back benefits and face federal limits.

Roeschke Law maintains profiles on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube. All four are declared in the structured data on the firm's own website. A YouTube presence in particular suggests the firm produces video content about the claims process.

The website carries structured data that identifies the firm's legal name, phone number and main office. Whoever built the site took the trouble to mark up that information for search engines. Small detail, but it points to a website that gets maintained rather than left alone.

What the site does not state

The pages we reviewed give no founding year for the firm. They also give no admission dates or bar credentials for the four named attorneys beyond Kiel Roeschke's degrees. Readers who want that background will need to ask.

Who this firm fits

The clearest match is someone in Arizona whose Social Security disability claim has been denied. Initial SSDI and SSI applications are turned down at high rates nationally, and the appeal is where representation usually earns its keep. Roeschke Law's stated focus lands on that exact point.

A second match is someone facing a workers' compensation denial or weighing a lump sum settlement offer. Those decisions carry long consequences, and a lump sum closes off future claims in most systems.

A third is a worker whose employer-provided long-term disability insurance has stopped paying. ERISA claims run under their own procedural rules, and the administrative record built during the internal appeal often decides the case before a court ever sees it.

A note on the contingency arrangement

For people out of work because of a medical condition, the fee structure removes an obstacle at the front end. In my view, that matters more in disability practice than in most other fields, because the client's income has usually already stopped by the time they call a lawyer.

Roeschke Law, LLC lists four attorneys, three Arizona offices and a practice built around Social Security disability, workers' compensation and long-term disability insurance claims.