Associates
Denise Bourgeois Haley is a native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana and a 1989 graduate of Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. Denise Bourgeois Haley practiced civil litigation defense for six years before becoming an associate at the Law Offices of Lawrence D. Rohlfing where she has practiced Social Security disability since 1996. She has represented claimants at the administrative level as well as all appellate levels over the past seven years. Her career is distinguished by hundreds of successful District Court appeals, one published civil litigation case before the California Court of Appeal and multiple successful appeals through the Ninth Circuit in Social Security cases. She served on the executive committee of the Los Angeles County Bar Association Social Security Section as well as on the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Jr. Chamber of Commerce for several years.
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Young Cho practices Social Security disability law and has done so since admission to the California State Bar in 1997. He is admitted to the California Bar, the United States District Courts for the Central, Southern, and Eastern Districts of California, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Mr. Cho has been involved in hundreds of cases before the courts and the Social Security Administration. He represents claimants for Social Security disability at all levels of administrative review. Young Cho was born in Seoul, Korea and raised in Los Angeles, California. He graduated from Whittier College in 1993 and Whittier Law School in 1996. He externed for Magistrate Judge Joseph Reichmann, retired.
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Brian Charles Shapiro practices Social Security disability and First Amendment law and has done so since admission to the California State Bar in 1997. He graduated from Whittier Law School in 1997. He graduated from the University of Rhode Island in 1994 and received a Masters degree in Psychology from Pepperdine University in 2001. He was born in Ocean Township, New Jersey. Mr. Shapiro has handled hundreds of cases before the Social Security Administration and the courts. Mr. Shapiro is admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the Central, Northern, Eastern, and Southern Districts of California as well the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Laura Lackey-Krank practices Social Security disability law and has done so since admission to the California State Bar in 2002. She graduated from Southwestern University of Law in 2002 cum laude. While in law school, she served as a member of the Southwestern University Law Review and President of the Irish Student's Law Association. She worked as a Judicial Extern for the Honorable Dean Pregerson of the United Stated District Court, Central District of California. Ms. Lackey-Krank has also externed for Commissioner Douglas Carnahan of the California Municipal Court, South Bay District, and for the Torrance City Attorney's Office-Criminal Division. She is a member of the American Inns of Court, the State Bar of California, and admitted to practice before the Central and Eastern United States District Courts of California. Ms. Lackey-Krank earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from California State University Dominguez Hills in 1998.
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Steven G. Rosales practices Social Security disability law and has done so since admission to the California State Bar in 2002. He is admitted to the California Bar, the United States District Courts for the Central, Southern, and Eastern Districts of California, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Mr. Rosales has been involved in a hundred of cases before the courts, including participating in three briefs before the United States Supreme Court, and the Social Security Administration. He represents claimants for Social Security disability at all levels of administrative review. Steven Rosales was born in Long Beach, California. He graduated from Whittier College in 1996 and Thomas Jefferson School of Law in 1999.
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Ronald L. Seivers is of counsel to the firm working in the Long Beach office of Rohlfing & Kalagian.
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Barbara Gedanke is a retired member of the firm.
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