Name: Social Security Disability (SSD) Basics
Start: 2026-05-13T12:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-05-13T13:00:00-05:00
Location: The Coopers Tavern

A short overview of Social Security’s two disability programs, Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income.
About this Event

This CLE presentation will be helmed by two SSD practitioners who also have experience in non-disability practice areas. They will be providing a short overview of Social Security’s two disability programs, Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and they will discuss how the SSD programs intersect with other practice areas. All the material will be tailored for non-SSD practitioners, and the presenters encourage attendees to bring their questions.

Attorney Maeve Pirt Meyer is a Senior Associate at the Hawks Quindel law firm. She devotes most of her practice to Social Security Disability law. Atty. Pirt Meyer has litigation experience in federal administrative law and several areas of civil law, including personal injury, probate, guardianship, and protective placement. She is a contributing author to the State Bar Pinnacle book, “Mental Health Law in Wisconsin: A Guide for Legal and Healthcare Professionals.”

Attorney Natalie Gerloff is a Senior Associate at the Hawks Quindell law firm. She practices wage and hour, social security disability, and family law. Atty. Gerloff earned her bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, and her law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School. In her second year of law school, Atty. Gerloff joined Hawks Quindel as a law clerk, where she then devoted her second and third years of law school to working on numerous worker’s compensation, employment, and wage and hour disputes.

Atty. Gerloff is a member of the Worker Justice Wisconsin Board of Directors, Wisconsin Association for Justice, Legal Association for Women, and National Organization of Social Security Claimants’ Representatives, where she is also a member of the Next Gen Committee. She also volunteers her time with the Wisconsin Lawyer Assistance Program and as a supervising attorney at the Wisconsin Law School Unemployment Compensation Appeals Clinic and at the Family Law Assistance Center.