Association of Administrative Law Judges

About This Association

The Association of Administrative Law Judges is both a labor union and a professional organization that represents more than 1,000 federal administrative law judges engaged in adjudication at the Social Security Administration. The SSA’s judiciary forms the largest adjudicative body in the western world. Each year, the SSA’s administrative law judges hold hundreds of thousands of hearings. More Americans will appear before an SSA administrative law judge than in any other judicial forum. Yet the procedures and issues related to SSA hearings are not widely understood because they are closed to the public to protect the privacy rights of claimants. Some even refer to these courts as “the hidden judiciary.”

Publications

Conventions

Annual

Specialties:

1. Legal

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