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Lawrence D. Rohlfing has practiced disability law since 1985. He represents the disabled and seeks to enforce their rights before the Social Security Administration, the United States District Courts, the United States Courts of Appeal, and the United States Supreme Court. Having been involved in thousands of disability claims and training of other lawyers, he brings considerable experience and expertise to the representation of disability claims under Social Security and ERISA.

Mr. Rohlfing has argued disability and other benefit entitlement claims in over a hundred claims before the Ninth and Tenth Circuit Courts of Appeals and lapsed to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. He presented briefs in three cases to the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Rohlfing argued Black & Decker Disability Plan v. Nord to the United States Supreme Court in April 2003.

Mr. Rohlfing is a sustaining member of the National Organization of Social Security Claimants' Representatives (NOSSCR). He has served as a Ninth Circuit Representative to the NOSSCR Board of Directors and Secretary, Treasurer, Vice President, and President of NOSSCR as well as a past president delegate to the obsolete Board of Directions. Mr. Rohlfing is the past chair of the Los Angeles County Bar Association Social Security Section. Mr. Rohlfing has presented numerous papers to bi-annual meetings of NOSSCR, the Los Angeles County Bar Association Social Security Section, the Beverly Hills Bar Association, the Southeast Bar Association of Los Angeles County, ACRD, the Michigan Bar Social Security Section, and the National Business Institute.

Larry graduated from Whittier College in 1982. He graduated from Whittier Law School in 1985 cum laude. He was named as the Whittier Law School attorney of the year in 2016 and the Southeast Bar Association attorney of the year in 2017. He received the distinguished service award from NOSSCR.

He is the proud father of seven children with his wife Maggie. Larry and Maggie currently have 12 grandchildren with plans to conquer the world. He was involved in the community managing baseball and softball teams, coaching football, and currently serving as the elder of La Habra Christian Church and the elite scorekeeper for a grandson’s baseball team.

Community Involvement:

La Mirada Little League - manager 1994, 1995, Winter 1995, 1996
La Habra Little League - manager 1997, Winter 1997, 2001, 2004, 2005, coach 2003
Whittier Pony Baseball - manager 1998
La Habra Girls Softball - head coach 1999, 2000
La Mirada Jr. All American Football - coach 1998
La Habra Pop Warner - team representative 1999, coach 2000, 2001, 2005, 2006, head coach 2007, 2008
La Habra Christian Church - elder 2001-2006, 2008-current, vice chair 2002, chair 2003 -2006, 2008-2012, 2014-2019, 2022-present.

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ACRD 2026 Annual Conference Speaker

Lawrence Rohlfing

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